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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: sco xenix troff: dumb questions
Message-ID: <254@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 88 13:21:41 GMT
References: <3336@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <1761@csun.edu> <659@vector.UUCP>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
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In article <659@vector.UUCP> chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
 >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.  ...
 >
 >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.

There was a cat2dit program posted to the net a while back.

In addition, there is a quite comprehensive otrff->LJ program which also 
was posted to the net during the past few months.

Check with your nearest archive site.
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