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From: kevin@ttidca.TTI.COM (Kevin Carothers)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: pic (Re: troff to postscript converter?)
Message-ID: <8674@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 27 Dec 89 07:32:37 GMT
References: <1989Dec20.011755.2556@twwells.com> <680@elan.elan.com>
Reply-To: kevin@ttidcb.tti.com (Kevin Carothers)
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
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In article <680@elan.elan.com> kg@elan.elan.com (Ken Greer) writes:
>From article <1989Dec20.011755.2556@twwells.com>, by bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells):
>> One of my coworkers called me to ask if I knew about any troff to postscript
>> converters... to run on a Sun 386, and he can't spend $7K for eroff.
>
>Eroff for the 386i is $1,295, not $7,000.  Elan's ditroff->PS driver
>alone is $863.

 How about "xtroff" from most netlib sites?
 It's free, but I'm having an awful time getting this beast put together.

 This xtroff package requires  the following:

 1. It requires a program called "pic" in order to (apparently) run.
    Anyone know where I can get this package?

 2. It requires a program called "bdftosnf" which is not anywhere to
    be found (that I know of).

 3. There is absolutely no documentation on how to install it.


  If anyone can answer me these questions, I-4-1 would be extremely 
  grateful.

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    Kevin Carothers           {philabs,csun,psivax}!ttidca!kevin