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Article #1827Re: Documentor's Workbench Install problems on Sun
From: Jaap Akkerhuis
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 1990 20:14
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 1990 20:14
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In article <1990Sep19.122319.26279@tukki.jyu.fi> sakkinen@jytko.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen) writes: > In article <2047@cfa209.cfa250.harvard.edu> zender@cfa250.harvard.edu (Charlie Zender) writes: > >I would greatly appreciate hearing from anyone at a site that is > >running AT&T's Documentor's Workbench on the Sun OS. We received a > >copy of version 2.0 on mag tape with two red binders and very poor, > >misleading, unworking documentation. About half of the make files had > >to be edited, along with some source code just to get the thing > >compiled on our sparcstation. Now that its compiled, it doesn't > >produce ditroff output!!! > >Suggestions? > > Sounds familiar. DWB Release 2.0 is several years old, > and AT&T haven't bothered to develop it up to production quality. > When I asked their European subsidiary about a newer release, > they said that no such thing is coming and recommended the QuadSoft product. Yep 2.0 is old and outdated, it predates the sparc machines and won't run properly on these type of machines, basically due to problems with variable arguments etc. Apparently 3.0 came out some months ago and that will run without any problem. jaap
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!mtxinu!jaap From: jaap@mtxinu.COM (Jaap Akkerhuis) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Documentor's Workbench Install problems on Sun Keywords: ditroff, dwb, troff Message-ID: <1354@mtxinu.UUCP> Date: 19 Sep 90 20:14:59 GMT References: <2047@cfa209.cfa250.harvard.edu> <1990Sep19.122319.26279@tukki.jyu.fi> Reply-To: jaap@mtxinu.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis) Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley Lines: 25