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From: housel@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Peter S. Housel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Pointer to PD nroff?
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Date: 19 Nov 88 19:05:27 GMT
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In-reply-to: MBECK@ai.ai.mit.edu (Mark Becker)

In article <5562@louie.udel.EDU>, MBECK@ai (Mark Becker) writes:
>Before I key in Allen Holub's "nr" formatter, I'm wondering if there's
>a public-domain version of nroff Out There somewhere.
>
>Pointers would be appreciated.
>
>Mark Becker
>mbeck@AI.AI.MIT.EDU

	Not that's ever been seen around here. I suspect there isn't.

	You don't have to key in NR - it is available on disk from M&T
Publishing for a reasonable cost. Be forewarned, however, that it
takes several hours of hacking to get working on Minix.

	Things that had to be done included:

	1) Commenting out the function prototypes for the Minix C compiler.
	2) Removing all references to the hyphenation routines. There just
	   isn't room.
	3) Splitting one of the files (I forget which one - it's the big
	   one that handles most of the dot-commands) into two sections
	   and joining them with a ".h" file.
	4) Writing a couple of routines missing from libc.
	5) Using a version of "asld" with its chmem value kicked up
	   somewhat. The "-i" option needs to be used too.
	6) Other misc. changes.

	While I was at it, I changed things so that nroff-compatible copy
mode is the default, and wrapped a ".cm" around the -ms macros. The NR
copy mode is bogus.

	If anybody wants a little more detail than this, plus my version
of the "-man" macros for NR/Minix, I can post them.

-Peter S. Housel-	housel@en.ecn.purdue.edu	...!pur-ee!housel