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From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: *roff for MS-DOS
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Date: 7 Feb 88 20:43:11 GMT
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In article <7189@ncoast.UUCP> btb@ncoast.UUCP (Brad Banko) writes:
>what a great idea!  bringing roff to the msdos world.  good luck.
>i have been looking for such a thing just recently.

I have a copy of proff, a simple *roff-like program that should run
on virtually any system.  It includes macros that come very close to
emulating the normal ms package.

It's hiding on tape somewhere, but I can email or post it if there's
sufficient demand.

jim frost
madd@bu-it.bu.edu