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From: jlw@ariel.UUCP (J.WOOD)
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Subject: Re: I Hate Nroff
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Date: Sun, 25-Sep-83 10:17:31 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 25 10:17:31 1983
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From Software Tools by Kernighan and Plauger:
	'format' is loosely based on J. Saltzer's Runoff program on
	CTSS.  Runoff has gone through numerous versions; ours is most
	closely related to Roff, by M. D. McIlroy.

This describes the format program in the book which follows [nt]roff.
[NT]roff was originally written by J. F. Ossana in PDP11 assembler
in the early 70s for the original UNIX.  Sadly Joe passed on in
77 or 78. Doug McIlroy is a research Department Head at BTL.

I'm afraid thet the user interface to [nt]roff is locked in
the proverbial concrete.



					Joseph L. Wood, III
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