ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski) (09/18/85)
In article <230@drivax.UUCP> alan@drivax.UUCP (Alan Fargusson) writes: >Nroff is not part of the System V distribution. Even when it is >some of the macro pacakages that you BSD type are use to are not >present. When you post a man page for something like 'less' you >MUST post the formated version. I can't believe that nroff and the -man macros are not supplied with UNIX by AT&T. They developed it. What do they use for documentation? I would prefer to have the nroffable version, so that it can be properly formatted with boldface and italics. It also makes it easier to update documentation. -- Ken Turkowski @ CADLINC, Menlo Park, CA UUCP: {amd,decwrl,hplabs,seismo,spar}!turtlevax!ken ARPA: turtlevax!ken@DECWRL.ARPA
gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) (09/20/85)
> >Nroff is not part of the System V distribution. > > I can't believe that nroff and the -man macros are not supplied with UNIX > by AT&T. They developed it. What do they use for documentation? nroff is still available as optional (layered) software, in the DWB package. This is one of the items that got unbundled. UNIX System V licensees who upgraded before 01-Apr-1984 were generally offered the DWB package "free" (ha) as part of the upgrade to Release 2.0.
scott@cstvax.UUCP (Scott Larnach) (09/27/85)
Please DO use nroff sources. If you preformat them, you are making
assumptions about the printers we have. Our printer has a 72 line
page. You can imagine the hassle this can cause with preformatted
stuff.
That's the whole idea behind having a thing like nroff in the 1st place.
How on earth do AT&T process their manual pages?
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