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Article #33514Re: nroff on st
From: Barnacle Wes
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 1988 05:37
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 1988 05:37
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In article <8807271425.AA06936@ucbvax.berkeley.edu>, UUCJEFF@ECNCDC.BITNET writes:
> Has anyone heard of it, public domain or otherwise? hacked or commercial?
Mark Williams sells a typsetter that is essentially the 20 or so most
used nroff commands for the ST. The package is called Let's Write or
something like that. Since it's from MWC, I would assume it is pretty
much bug-free.
Your other option, if you have a good C compiler (such as MWC :-) would
be to get the NR package from M&T Books. This is the company that
publishes Dr. Dobb's Journal. Allen Holub wrote an nroff clone for the
PC in a series of articles, and the book and disk together cost only
(frantic pawing through a six-month stack of Dr. Dobb's, Byte, Computer
Language, Unix Review, Unix World, Micro Systems Journal, Yachting, and
Sailing World finally reveals...) $29.95 (C source on the disk). I
haven't tried porting this to the ST, but most of his programs port
pretty well.
NR: An Implementation of the Unix NROFF Word Processor
Allen Holub
M&T Books
Item #33-X
501 Galveston Dr.
Redwood City, CA 94063
1 800 356 2002 in Ca
1 800 356 4372 USA
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!oodis01!uplherc!sp7040!obie!wes From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: nroff on st Summary: Well, sort of... Message-ID: <131@obie.UUCP> Date: 4 Aug 88 05:37:30 GMT References: <8807271425.AA06936@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> Organization: the Well of Souls Lines: 30