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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: nroff on st
Summary: Well, sort of...
Message-ID: <131@obie.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 88 05:37:30 GMT
References: <8807271425.AA06936@ucbvax.berkeley.edu>
Organization: the Well of Souls
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In article <8807271425.AA06936@ucbvax.berkeley.edu>, UUCJEFF@ECNCDC.BITNET writes:
> Has anyone heard of it, public domain or otherwise?  hacked or commercial?

Mark Williams sells a typsetter that is essentially the 20 or so most
used nroff commands for the ST.  The package is called Let's Write or
something like that.  Since it's from MWC, I would assume it is pretty
much bug-free.

Your other option, if you have a good C compiler (such as MWC :-) would
be to get the NR package from M&T Books.  This is the company that
publishes Dr. Dobb's Journal.  Allen Holub wrote an nroff clone for the
PC in a series of articles, and the book and disk together cost only
(frantic pawing through a six-month stack of Dr. Dobb's, Byte, Computer
Language, Unix Review, Unix World, Micro Systems Journal, Yachting, and
Sailing World finally reveals...) $29.95 (C source on the disk).  I
haven't tried porting this to the ST, but most of his programs port
pretty well.

		NR: An Implementation of the Unix NROFF Word Processor
		Allen Holub
		M&T Books
		Item #33-X
		501 Galveston Dr.
		Redwood City, CA  94063
		1 800 356 2002 in Ca
		1 800 356 4372 USA
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