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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: PTROFF...
Message-ID: <1695@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 11 Jun 91 02:02:36 GMT
References: <1991Jun10.152106.3239@csus.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <1991Jun10.152106.3239@csus.edu>
	shahryar@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Persian Nightmare) writes:
>Anyone know where I might be able to find the sources for ptroff,
>the nice utility that comes with the NeXT OS??

ptroff is part of Adobe's Transcript package.  This is LICENSED
software that NeXT is kind enough to bundle with their Releases.
If you want it for some other "competing" platform, e.g. a Sun,
expect to pay BIG BUCKS for BINARIES--educational pricing
for Transcript is on the order of $1800 per machine.  Sources?
Ha ha.

NeXT offers more than cost-effective hardware; even with the
new HP machines that ostensibly offer "more bang for the buck,"
when you consider the True Cost of Ownership, NeXT is still #1.

					-=EPS=-