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- Hi all,
-
- This is the `readme' file for my port of GNU groff 1.07 for the Atari ST.
- This file is included in the groff archives, but should also remain with the
- archives on all FTP sites to save people transferring megabytes for nothing.
-
- Groff is a typesetting program that can produce dvi, ascii, PostScript and
- X11 output. If you only need nroff to format manpages for ascii, you'll
- be better off with Bill Rosenkranz's nroff. If you want to do typesetting
- and you don't have nroff experience, maybe you'd better learn LaTeX.
-
- Groff has been ported for MiNT. It will not work with TOS. Also, you'll need
- quite a bit of memory for it to work. If you have 1 Mb or less, forget it.
- If you have 2 Mb, it may just work, if you don't have too many other
- programs and accessories around. If you have more memory, fine: you should
- not have any problems.
-
- Groff takes a *lot* of harddisk space (forget about using floppy disks).
- The binaries alone take 1.5 Mb, the man pages take 200 Kb, and the library
- files take 1.2 Mb. If you don't want to produce PostScript and X11 output,
- the library files will take 600 Kb.
-
- The library files (and preferably, the man pages too) should remain on
- a minix partition of your harddisk. You may experience problems if
- you put the library file on a TOS (MS_DOS) partition.
-
- Finally, some programs need `perl' to function. Don't worry, though, if you
- don't have perl; it is unlikely that you'll need these programs. The
- programs affected are `afmtodit', a program that analyses PostScript font
- decsription files, and `grog', a program that tries to guess what
- groff parameters you'll need an then calls groff for you. Grog will also
- work, although less ably, if you have a shell (/bin/sh).
-
- This port of groff comes in two zoo archives:
- - groffbin.zoo, which contains the programs
- - groffvar.zoo, which contains the library files, the man pages, etc.
- The second archive contains two tar files. Please use a real tar program
- to untar these files, for instance GNU tar 1.11.1.
- An old tar may damage filenames not fitting the MS-DOS 8+3 rule, of which
- there are many. (Otherwise, I'd have zoo'd the stuff. But then, most zoo
- programs around also damage filenames not fitting the 8+3 rule.)
-
- Installation info is contained in the file `install', which is included
- in both archives. That file will tell you what environment variables to
- set, what to put where, etc. It is safe to un-zoo both archives on any
- drive that has enough free space left, be it a TOS or a minix partition.
-
- Any questions, comments, bug-reports etc. should go to:
- Hildo Biersma // boender@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl
- schuller@dutiag.twi.tudelft.nl
-