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Article #1161Re: nroff/tex
From: manis
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1986 16:17
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1986 16:17
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At the risk of getting into a UNIX-vs-the-rest flame, or a TeX-vs-troff flame, I must respond to Henry Spencer's remark that while TeX runs on most computers known to humanity, troff runs on UNIX, which runs on most computers known to humanity. True enough, but computing centre managements which don't run UNIX generally aren't enthusiastic about switching to a mainframe UNIX port just so some of their users can do troff. I speak from experience: I've been using a 4.2 BSD system for proofing documents which finally live on an Amdahl 5860 running MTS. I only have to change a few lines regarding fonts at the beginning of the file, and from then on everything is exactly the same. I have no intention of trying to convince the computing centre management to switch to UTS, VM/UX, or any other such port just so I can do the same with troff.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!sri-spam!sri-unix!hplabs!tektronix!uw-beaver!ubc-vision!ubc-cs!manis From: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.text,net.unix Subject: Re: nroff/tex Message-ID: <438@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Oct-86 12:17:18 EDT Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.438 Posted: Tue Oct 14 12:17:18 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Oct-86 23:59:41 EDT References: <421@cci632.UUCP> <210@NCSUVM> <7215@utzoo.UUCP> Reply-To: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP (Vincent Manis) Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science Lines: 15