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Re: ms macro ( where do I get tmac.s )

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From: Ronald S H Khoo
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1991 00:58
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henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

> We ship an emulation for a small subset of -ms with C News (doc/tmac.cn).
> Awf (comp.sources.unix last summer) also supports a subset of -ms.  I'm
> not aware of anything more complete.

groff has a -ms clone that's apparently complete, but unfortunately
it's written using groff-specific features, and thus will only
run under groff, which is not unreasonable, but possibly a little unfortunate.

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From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo)
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Subject: Re: ms macro   ( where do I get tmac.s )
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.005842.9474@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 1 Mar 91 00:58:42 GMT
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