Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!adobe!heaven!heaven.woodside.ca.us
From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: PTROFF...
Message-ID: <523@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 12 Jun 91 03:49:24 GMT
References: <1695@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Sender: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us
Lines: 19

Eric P. Scott writes
> 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.

I presume that by "Ha ha" you mean that the source code costs about
$2500, rather than meaning that it's not available at all, because
it is.  It's available from Adobe and I think also from Sun.

But I agree with you that it's another place where NeXT is quite
cost-effective as a platform.

--
 Glenn Reid				RightBrain Software
 glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us		NeXT/PostScript developers
 ..{adobe,next}!heaven!glenn		415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977)