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From: phil@Apple.COM (Phil Ronzone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: A/UX nroff -ms doesn't work
Message-ID: <15013@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 1 Aug 88 17:33:08 GMT
References: <3163@Portia.Stanford.EDU> <113@obie.UUCP>
Reply-To: phil@apple.apple.com.UUCP (Phil Ronzone)
Organization: Apple Computer A/UX Group
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In article <113@obie.UUCP> wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes:
>In article <3163@Portia.Stanford.EDU>, mouser@Portia.Stanford.EDU (Michael Wang) writes:
>> I need to use the ms macro package with nroff but when I typed:
>>      nroff -ms file.ms > file.doc
>> I got the error mesage:
>>      nroff: cannot open file /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.s
>> Does anybody know what I am doing wrong?
>
>Yah, you bought the wrong flavor of Unix.  The `MS' macro package comes
>with Berkely Unix systems, and A/UX is an AT&T (System V) Unix system.

Hmmm - methinks "Barnacle Wes" might like to catch whoever is submitting
under his login ID and make them use A/UX first before commenting! :-)
Anyway, M. Wang didn't buy the wrong flavor of UNIX. The ms macros, like
not a few items still in BSD are kludgy and obsolescent. We at Apple did
not supply them because we didn't want yet another item to maintain that
was going away. You can copy your /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.s file from a BSD
system over and it should just work fine. Both the original -ms and -me
macro packages from the BSD 4.3 tape work just fine -- all bets are off
for any kludge versions. Remember after all, in A/UX, we have supplied
standard ditroff.
them because
Philip K. Ronzone  A/UX System Architect
Apple Computer MS 27AJ 10500 N. DeAnza Blvd. Cupertino CA 95014
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"In A/UX Release 4.0, /bin will still be there ...." P. Zigbooli