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From: dfenyes@thesis1.med.uth.tmc.edu (David Fenyes)
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Subject: Re: Looking for Troff for Dos
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Date: 27 Jun 91 19:17:01 GMT
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In <1991Jun18.223737.18196@rockyd.rockefeller.edu> bergman@hcx.rockefeller.edu (Mark Bergman) writes:

>I'm particularly interested in PD troff (if it exists) or versions
>of psroff or groff ported to DOS and executable on a '286 :).

I found that groff 1.02 compiles without modification on MSDOS with
djgpp.  The only things I needed to change were the makefiles and
emulation of popen() and pclose().  pic, tbl, troff work fine in some
instances, although troff often bombs because the 386 emulation is not
yet complete.  Hopefully we'll soon have a high quality troff option
on msdos.  groff is particularly attractive because it can produce
DVI files :-)

David

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David Fenyes                                 dfenyes@thesis1.med.uth.tmc.edu
University of Texas Medical School           Houston, Texas