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- Proff - A portable formatter
-
- This is the first distribution of PROFF, a formatter based
- on software tools ROFF. It is mainly a C re-write of ROFF,
- (now known as FORMAT), with some expansions. It is mainly
- intended for non-UN*X systems, CP/M, MS-DOS and the like.
-
- Proff was originally written for The Faculty of Administrative
- Studies, York University, to supplement their microcomputer
- environment. As of this release, the formatter is in the
- control of The Faculty of Administrative Studies.
-
- There is no man page for proff, for it was never intended
- for UN*X systems. There is, however two comprehensive
- documents to answer all questions.
-
- The C code for PROFF is quite warped, and should be approached
- carefully. [Ok..Ok.. it is all my fault.. too much midnight
- oil..] It is reasonably customazible, by changing proffsym.new.
- This file is processed by ltb, a static hash table generator.
- This approach is most useful to change the operator keywords,
- create aliases, and it also bypassess the initialization
- overhead. [see the makefile for the right output file names
- for ltb]
-
- PROFF is not copyrighted, at least for this release. Future
- releases may contain York University copyright.
-
- Please send me all updates, bugfixes and other tidbits,
- so that future releases may be coordinated smoothly.
-
- enjoy.
- oz
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