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From: chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: sco xenix troff: dumb questions
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Date: 12 Dec 88 14:15:27 GMT
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In article <1761@csun.edu> cacsc222@mx.csun.edu (Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl) writes:
>And does anyone have a TROFF driver for an HP Laserjet?  This is for SCO 2.2.1

The problem is that SCO's troff is the old troff and not the device
independant ditroff.  Old troff is hardwired for C/A/T typesetter output.
This makes it difficult to implement other devices.  Some companies have
done this.  I've used QMS's qtroff, and Imagen has itroff.

For those of us stuck with old troff, I see three alternatives:

(1)  Get a translator program.  For example, SSC sells a "cat2dit" program
     for $295 ($495 for source).  Once there, you can use something like
     "jetroff".  I haven't done any of this, so no guarantees.

(2)  Junk it and buy the troff package from somebody like Elan.

(3)  Stick with nroff.

I've been using the third alternative.  I've hacked together some
driver tables for the LJ, and this has been good enough for most of the
things I do.  If anybody is interested in my "tablj.c" nroff driver,
you are welcome to a copy.
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