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I said:
: > By the way, does anyone have a compiled copy of groff for Sun3 or Sun4 (4.1)
: > or even Vax or Pyramid?  I've spent hours trying to get it to compile and
: > run, and don't have any more time to piddle with it.  It would make me
: > Very Happy if there was somewhere I could ftp a runnable copy.

I got one, you can stop offering now...thanks...

In article <1990Nov14.094039.11153@robobar.co.uk> ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes:
: I'm not sure that groff is really ready for that kind of use yet.
: Personally, I'm sticking to old troff (no, I lie, *ancient* troff :-)
: with Chris Lewis's "psroff" package which translates the CAT output
: to postscript, laserjet or ditroff output.  That package really is
: production quality.

But ancient troff still has the 3 1/2 font limit, which is the primary
reason I wanted groff.  I don't suppose psroff has a way around that?

: In the long term, groff will probably become more important, as
: I don't have pic.  But for straighforward tbl | eqn | troff -mm,
: psroff is easy to compile, install, and use, is well tested, and
: doesn't require a C++ compiler.

groff 0.6 seemed to work okay for me, though gtbl didn't like me to
say font 3 instead of font B.

: Question: anyone know if groff has been fixed to handle -mm yet ?

Dunno.

Larry