Re: troff and nroff

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From: Mike "Phish" Sprague
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:41

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In article <35149@adm.brl.mil> smant@nlr.nl (smant g.a.) writes:
>According to Randolph J. Herber:
>I think it would be better if SGi moved the dps_dev (Display PostScript
>Development System) from the IRIS Development Option (IDO) package onto
>the Laser Printer Support (LPS) package and in stead of the dps_dev, SGi
>could supply the Documenter's Workbench (DWB) with the rest of the IDO
>package (developers do make man-pages, don't they?). I think these would
>make a MUCH BETTER combination!

I must agree although the best would be to have both available with
the basic package.  Trying to install a lot of man pages without 
nroff/troff is a real pain...

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From: mfs@uunet!phcs (Mike "Phish" Sprague)
Subject: Re: troff and nroff
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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:41:34 GMT
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