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From: bill@camco.Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Help for pic/grep on SunOS 4.X.X
Message-ID: <1054@camco.Celestial.COM>
Date: 27 May 91 17:52:31 GMT
References: <27001@adm.brl.mil> <16261@smoke.brl.mil>
Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
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In <16261@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:

:In article <27001@adm.brl.mil> KX10LYC0%TWNITRI1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes:
:>     I CAN'T FIND THE ---pic---, ---grep---, etc. ON SUN OS 4.*.*
:>     ENVIRONMENT.
:>     In Sun OS 4.*.*, you can only find the troff/nroff, tbl, eqn, and some
:>macros for processing text.

:For reasons that I don't understand, Sun decided not to make the Documenter's
:WorkBench package (which is where "pic", "grap", etc. come from) available,
:even via separate licensing.  The "troff" etc. that they DO provide are the
:old C/A/T-specific versions, not the modern device-independent troff that the
:Documenter's WorkBench provides.

:You can license Documenter's WorkBench directly from AT&T, but you'll need to
:get the sources and port it yourself, or find someone who has done so.

I think these are also supported by groff from the gnu project of
the Free Software Foundation.  I haven't tried to get groff
running yet because it is written in c++ (g++) and I don't have
that running on my Xenix box yet either :-(

Bill
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