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From: geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: help with sys file
Message-ID: <1991May23.235532.25748@world.std.com>
Date: 23 May 91 23:55:32 GMT
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Bill Heiser:
>The reason I was "trying to wing it" as you say, is that I don't have a
>good way to read the troff-format documentation.  Those of use running on
>systems without text processing packages have a real time of it when it
>comes to decyphering formatting characters and text from these documents.

That's no excuse! :-) Get Henry's mini-nroff, awf, from your local
comp.sources.unix archive (e.g. uunet!~/comp.sources.unix/volume23/awf.Z)
and use it.  If you don't have an awk (which awf needs), get gawk from
the same place (e.g. uunet!~/comp.sources.unix/volume22/gawk2.11/*).  If
you don't have an nroff, an awk, or a C compiler, you aren't going to be
able to run C News, at least as we distribute it, sorry.

There is no longer any reason to suffer without documentation, even on
System V.
-- 
Geoff Collyer		world.std.com!geoff, uunet.uu.net!geoff