Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!sicsun!disuns2!disuns2.epfl.ch!simon From: simon@liasun2.epfl.ch (Simon Leinen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Switching from Sun to HP: some general questions Message-ID: Date: 4 Jun 91 09:14:02 GMT References: <17780029@hpfcmgw.HP.COM> Sender: news@disuns2.epfl.ch Reply-To: simon@liasun2.epfl.ch Organization: /users/simon/.organization Lines: 19 Nntp-Posting-Host: liasun5.epfl.ch In-reply-to: clarke@hpfcmgw.HP.COM's message of 3 Jun 91 15:59:29 GMT X-Md4-Signature: 6cbef589bf38e46ed31467fb0a89d54e In article <17780029@hpfcmgw.HP.COM> clarke@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Clarke Echols) writes: DWB requires a separate license from AT&T. Since variants of that package is available from several third-party vendors, HP has chosen not to compete with them. DWB includes troff, eqn, pic, and tbl. HP-UX provides nroff, neqn, and tbl. All of these programs, along with drivers for PostScript(TM), TeX DVI format, X11 and ASCII/ISO Latin-1, are available in the copylefted (i.e. freely redistributable) Groff package from the Free Software Foundation. I use them to print all kinds of roff'ed documentation and I am very happy with them. You have to have a C++ compiler though (I used G++ 1.39.1, but the newer AT&T CC should work). You can get them via anonymous FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu, file /pub/gnu/groff-1.01.tar.Z (927440 bytes). -- Simon.