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From: tim@ora.UUCP (Tim O'Reilly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: troff to postscript translators
Keywords: troff ditroff postscript
Message-ID: <1304@ora.UUCP>
Date: 9 Oct 88 12:58:39 GMT
References: <286@drd.UUCP>
Organization: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Newton, MA
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In article <286@drd.UUCP>, mark@drd.UUCP (Mark Lawrence) writes:
> In <556@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl> Jos Vos wrote about TPSCRIPT.  I notice
> that it expects ditroff output.  Is ditroff output different from troff output
> and if so, is there a converter available to do that?  I'm running on a Sun
> which has no ditroff (to my knowledge) and worse yet, has no tmac.mm macro set

Yes, unfortunately, the Sun has old troff, which is
different from ditroff (device-independent troff).  You can
get around this with a package called cat2dit, which comes
with devps from Pipeline Associates.  I don't have their
company address handy, but you can reach the principals 
as follows:
 
Pat Wood 201-731-7860
Steve Kochan (212) 598-4650 or (212) 598-9457

We resell devps, but have never gotten around to carrying
the cat2dit upgrade.

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