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Article #163Re: psroff - is there a free version available
From: Udo Munk
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 22:25
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 22:25
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mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
:
: >There's no such thing as a PostScript version of nroff or troff. Because
: >both nroff and troff generate a generic format that requires post processors
: >to convert to the output device you want.
:
Sorry, but Coherent from Mark Williams Company comes with a troff, which
produces PCL output as default, and postscript output if you give the
option -p. There is no post processor to convert to postscript.
Of cause it comes also with nroff, which generates ASCII files.
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