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From: dg@wrs.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: nroff (was Re: DAEMONs -- what does GCOS mean anyway ?)
Message-ID: <418@wrs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 18:41:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: wrs.418
Posted: Thu Oct 15 18:41:22 1987
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References: <1131@nrcvax.UUCP> <3550002@hplsdla.HP.COM> <392@xios.XIOS.UUCP> <1129@ark.cs.vu.nl> <748@ea.ecn.purdue.edu>
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In article <748@ea.ecn.purdue.edu> davy@ea.ecn.purdue.edu.UUCP (Dave Curry) writes:
>"roff" was the original program, and stood for "RunOFF".  I assume the
>"t" stands for "typesetter".  I've always wondered what the "n" was
>for though ("non-typesetter"?).

"Neat" as in "neat run off" which gives nroff
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		dg@wrs.UUCP - David Goodenough

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