NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/sys/atari/st/13432

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From: [e-mail] (William Rosenkranz)
Subject: Re: / man confusion.
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i will upload a version of nroff to atari archive that does deal with
fonts. i fear u may be using an old version of nroff (or macro package).
look for file "nroff12b.zoo" in atari.archive.umich.edu:~ftp/atarist/new
in the next day or two. note that this nroff is a reasonable subset of
unix nroff but it lacks some key features. nroff12b.zoo will be binary
only (with docs, macros, etc). basically what i use now.

you will also need manpager to view the formatted documents. i posted
a man program and someone else did as well (recently). u should be able
to set the PAGER environment variable to manpager and have it work. note
that this ONLY works with monochrome now (unless u make a set of fonts
for med rez and rebuild manpager - source for nroff, manpager, and man
has been posted).

i also understand that someone is finishing a port of GNU groff to the
ST. this should do everything (but then again it will undoubtedly be HUGE).
that's the basic tradeoff. i wrote nroff basically to handle manpages
and simple -ms documents (no tbl, eqn, pic, graph, etc). groff has all
of these.

-bill
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