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From: jaap+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jaap Akkerhuis)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: makedev for ditroff
Message-ID: <kYCuUmy00jbYRWunId@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 6 Apr 89 18:10:58 GMT
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Organization: Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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> *Excerpts from ext.nn.comp.text: 5-Apr-89 makedev for ditroff Jonathan*
> *Knight@cs.keele (725)*
> ....use makedev but the program doesn't exist on that machine either.
> Have I missed something obvious?
No. You don't have missed anything. Your vendor has. They apparently forgot to
put in the makdev program in their product. Complain to them loudly.

As an alternative, you could try to get a public domain rewrite from an archive.
Some of these have been floating around on the net.

        jaap