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Article #5793Re: What's the name of ditroff's output
From: Wolf N. Paul
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 1989 04:28
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 1989 04:28
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In article <5800003@ugun21> josef@ugun21.UUCP writes: >With all these names and acronyms floating around, is there an official >name for ditroff's output? The manual page in the UNIX manual describing ditroff's output is called troff(5) (or if you prefer, troff.5). The NAME section of this page says simply, "troff -- description of output language". If I had to write about it, I would refer to it as "troff.5 output format" or something like that; that would do for talking too, even though it sounds more clumsy than "C", or "BASIC", or "DVI". Wolf -- Wolf N. Paul * 3387 Sam Rayburn Run * Carrollton TX 75007 * (214) 306-9101 UUCP: killer!dcs!wnp ESL: 62832882 DOMAIN: dcs!wnp@killer.dallas.tx.us TLX: 910-380-0585 EES PLANO UD
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!killer!dcs!wnp From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: What's the name of ditroff's output Summary: troff.5 Message-ID: <315@dcs.UUCP> Date: 5 Feb 89 04:28:36 GMT References: <5800003@ugun21> Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) Organization: DCS, Dallas, Texas Lines: 17