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From: jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman)
Newsgroups: comp.archives
Subject: [sgi] Re: formatting man pages without DWB (FAQ)
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Date: 26 Apr 91 01:30:23 GMT
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Archive-name: text/troff/awf-sgi/1991-04-24
Archive: fresnel.stanford.edu:pub/4DX/awf-sgi.tar.Z [36.10.0.77]
Original-posting-by: jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman)
Original-subject: Re: formatting man pages without DWB (FAQ)
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)


     So, my question is, given access to Suns & DECstations it possible
     to produce irix man pages w/o spending $300 on DWB?

  Use:  nroff -man

  This is a cleaver option.  The option is -m with an argument 'an'.

At least as of 3.3.1, no DWB means no nroff.  So this won't get you
very far.  There is an awk-based formatter called AWF (A workable
formatter) written by Henry Spencer.  A version for IRIX including a
fake nroff/tbl/eqn script is available by anonymous ftp to
fresnel.stanford.edu.  Look for pub/4D/awf-sgi.tar.Z

-jim

Jim Helman
Department of Applied Physics			Durand 012
Stanford University				FAX: (415) 725-3377
(jim@KAOS.stanford.edu) 			Work: (415) 723-9127

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