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Re: Documenters Workbench

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From: Stephen Hocking
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1989 10:10
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In article <8818@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>, wnp@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Wolf Paul) writes:
< In article <708@physiol.su.oz> shocking@physiol.su.oz (Stephen Hocking) writes:
<  >In article <376@trevan.UUCP<, trevor@trevan.UUCP (trevor) writes:
<  >< 
<  >< 	Please could anyone tell me where I can get a troff which will
<  >< work under Microport V/AT. The one supplied by Microport seems to be
<  >< broke.
<  >< 
<  >< 			regards trevor
<  >
<  >	How do you think it's broken. I've been flogging it, with a couple 
<  >of backends for laserwriters and laserjets that have come over the net net,
<  >and apart from the generic Sys V bug of not being able to mount more than 10
<  >fonts, it's fine.
< 
< Well, it's not exactly broken, and probably works with many backends, but
< he's trying to use it with JetRoff, which was written to work with DWB 2.0,
< and Microport's 286 DWB is an earlier version. Their 386 version is version
< 2.0, though.
< -- 
< Wolf N. Paul * 3387 Sam Rayburn Run * Carrollton TX 75007 * (214) 306-9101
< UUCP:   {texbell, attctc, dalsqnt}!dcs!wnp
< DOMAIN: wnp@attctc.dallas.tx.us or wnp%dcs@texbell.swbt.com
<         NOTICE: As of July 3, 1989, "killer" has become "attctc".


	But the backend that I was using with was the last version of Jetroff
posted to the net. Mind you, Rick has a few versions later than that that
he'll send if you register.

		Stephen
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From: shocking@physiol.su.oz (Stephen Hocking)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Documenters Workbench
Summary: But the backend for laserjets that I used was Jetroff!
Message-ID: <718@physiol.su.oz>
Date: 2 Aug 89 10:10:21 GMT
References: <376@trevan.UUCP< <708@physiol.su.oz> <8818@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Organization: Physiology Dept., Univ. of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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