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- From: apelled@cix.compulink.co.uk (Adam Pelled)
- Subject: Re: / man confusion.
- Reply-To: apelled@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 22:11:00 +0000
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- In article <1992Sep08.205732.5916@convex.com>, rosenkra@convex.com (William Rosenkranz) writes:
- >
- >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.
-
- Many thanks.
-
- >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).
-
- The only reason i pulled it back out of archive was that i have aquired
- a monochrome monitor. Looks good, i can do 'man man' and the 'fun' fonts.
- The ability to do integrals and Greek characters etc is especially interest-
- ing.
-
- >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.
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- Adam.
-