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- This file explains how to install GNU groff 1.07 on your Atari ST.
-
- First of all, the requirements are repeated. If your machine is not up
- to these, forget about installing groff. Sorry!
- - Atari ST running MiNT
- - 2 Mb or more RAM
- - 1.5 Mb TOS/minix harddisk space for the binaries
- - 1.4 minix harddisk space for the libraries and manpages. You can use
- a TOS partition, but I advise against it.
- - A good tar, preferably GNU tar 1.10 or later
-
-
- Installation:
- - Unzoo both archives. Since you're reading this file, I presume you
- did that already. Any kind of disk partition is okay, so don't worry
- if you unzoo'd groffvar.zoo on a TOS partition.
- - All files from groffbin go to a directory in your search path.
- You can copy them to /bin; I put them in /gnu/groffbin and added that
- to my search path.
- - Use a good tar to untar groffbin.tar. It should be untar-ed in /usr/lib.
- The tarfile extracts a groff/ subdirectory of some 1.2 Mb, /usr/lib/groff.
- You can put it anywhere else, but you'll have to set some environment
- variables (see below) or make a symbolic link to wherever you put it.
- - Use a good tar to untar groffman.tar. It will extract a groffman/
- subdirectory of some 200 Kb. Copy the contents of the subdirectories
- to your man directories (NOT using the desktop: use a shell).
- So, groffman/man1/* should go to something like /usr/man/man1.
- - You're almost done! Now decide on your default device for output.
- The default is `ascii'; if you want something else, set the environment
- variable GROFF_TYPESETTER (see below).
-
-
- Environment variables:
- Set the following environment variables if you want a non-standard path
- for your files, if you want another default device, or whatever.
-
- GROFF_TMAC_PATH:
- A colon-separated list of directories in which to search for macro files.
- The default is ".:/usr/lib/groff/tmac:/usr/lib/font".
-
- GROFF_TYPESETTER
- The default device. This is the output device chosen when no device
- is specified on the command line. The default is "ascii".
-
- GROFF_FONT_PATH
- A colon-separated list of directories in which to search for the dev*
- directories. Troff will search in the directories specified by the
- -F command-line option before these, and in
- ".:/usr/lib/groff/font:/usr/lib/font:/lib/font" after these.
-
- GROFF_HYPHEN
- The file containing hyphenation patterns. The default is
- /usr/lib/groff/tmac/hyphen.us.
-
- GROFF_TMPDIR
- The directory for temporary files. If this is not set, $TMPDIR
- will be used. If that isn't set either, /tmp will be used.
-
-
- Saving space:
- If you want to save on the disk space used, you can delete fonts,
- macros and programs you don't need.
- For instance, if you don't need any PostScript support, you can delete
- /usr/lib/groff/font/devps and all the programs supporting PostScript.
- If you don't need -me macros, you can delete /usr/lib/groff/tmac/tmac.e.
- Be careful, however: some programs are run by other programs, and some]
- macro-packages are silently included. For instance, nroff always gives
- a -mtty-char parameter to groff, which means
- /usr/lib/groff/tmac/tmac.tty-char is read. So, don't delete blindly or
- keep a backup of the archives near!
-
-
- Good luck! If you experience any problems, or wish a clearer explanation,
- please mail me. I'll treat any such problems as a bug-report,
- which means that:
- a) You're welcome (don't be ashamed to mail me with problems).
- b) I'll try to answer you soonest.
- c) I'll try to fix any flaws in future releases. So, mailing me
- with a problem or a solution will help not just you, but also
- many other people out there.
-
- Bye, Hildo Biersma
- boender@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl // schuller@dutiag.twi.tudelft.nl
-