mm macros for ULTRIX 2.0 wanted

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From: Don Kossman
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1987 19:27

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am just bringing up an ultrix 2.0 system, discovered that ms and me
are supplied as nroff macro packages... but no mm.  of course the
documents i'm working with are all mm'd, so i brought over the 
mm macro definitions from my xenix 2.2 system.  they ALMOST work,
but tables of contents and tables with boxes are all loused up-
seems like the "term" structure used with ultrix has two fewer
members (iton and itoff are missing), and mm must be using
absolute offsets inside the structure.  the term entries are
dynamically linked, which means that i can't add the missing
members (if i do all my text ends up rotated by two characters-
looks like elvish...)

i had a look at the mm macro definitions but it would take me 
weeks to figure out the horrible convoluted recursive dynamic
macro language.

has anyone out there solved this?  if so, could you email me
your ultrix-nroff-compatable macro library?? 

thanks in advance.



-- 
Don Kossman, SEI Information Technology, Los Angeles
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Subject: mm macros for ULTRIX 2.0 wanted
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Date: Tue, 18-Aug-87 15:27:47 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 18 15:27:47 1987
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Keywords: mm macros ultrix 2.0 nroff
Summary: xenix 2.2 mm macros don't work