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Re: psroff - is there a free version available

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From: Marcus J. Ranum
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:21

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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.

	Damn, I'll have to delete my copy of groff, then.

	I dunno - it's not "real" [nt]roff, but it takes [nt]roff input and
spews PostScript out the other end. That's close enough to a PostScript
version of [nt]roff for me, thankyouverymuch.

mjr.

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