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- Comments on ROFF4, version 1.61 for MS-DOS (September 9, 1984):
-
- This technical text formatter may be freely distributed,
- even for financial gain, so long as all copyright notices are
- retained so that all users will be able to easily ascertain the
- origin of this software.
-
- This formatter was originally developed in a version of
- the C language (BDS C) that is only available for the CP/M-80
- type of environment. Version 1.50 is available as SIG/M volume
- 126 and version 1.60 is available as SIG/M volume 174 from the
- Amateur Computer Group of New Jersey (ACGNJ), Box 319, South
- Bound Brook, NJ 08880 and also through the C User's Group (CUG),
- Box 289, Yates Center, KS 66783. A published description of this
- formatter has appeared in Microsystems, Volume 5, Number 9
- (September, 1984), pages 48-56.
-
- This conversion to DeSmet's C to run in MS-DOS has been
- kindly supplied by Professor Henry Harpending, Anthropology
- Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM 87131. He
- has apparently been using similar MS-DOS versions for some time
- and he thinks it is a reasonably close approximation to the CP/M
- versions. Since I have very limited access to MS-DOS machines, I
- have not done independent verification for MS-DOS. Never the
- less, I would be appreciative of any reports of problems (and
- fixes if possible) for any environments. If you have suggestions
- for improvements, please pass them along as well!
-
- Considering the general availability of C compilers,
- perhaps someone will wish to port this formatter to yet other
- environments; nothing would please me more. I am sure that
- there are not enough good formatters capable of technical
- manuscript preparation in virtually all environments.
-
- If you develop a good table for yet other output devices
- (printers), why not share it!
-
- Enjoy,
-
- Ernest E. Bergmann
- 730 Seneca Street
- Bethlehem, PA 18015
- USA