Lars Poulsen <LARS@acc.ARPA> (01/04/85)
I do most of my work in three somewhat distinct environments: - VAX/VMS (Vanilla 3.7) - TWG Eunice (3.2) - 4.2 BSD Unix After a period of trying to use native tools in each environment, I have more or less given up on EDT and I now stick to VI on any system that has it. (Has anybody written a VI emulator for TPU ?) ----- Next, I have to come to terms with text formatters; it looks like I am going to have to live without the real nice ones (which I hear are SCRIBE and TEX) and make do with RUNOFF (DSR) and NROFF/DITROFF. Ideally, I'd like to have a compatible subset; it looks like it oughta be possible to write a DSR emulation in NROFF (provided you stick to the two-letter versions of the commands), but I definitely wouldn't want to build it myself. Has anyone done it ? Our in-house systems support group hacked up a package which I don't happen to like much, and then they say that if you want something else (or more) you should use -ms (or was it -me ?). Not that they'd really support it, of course. Also the inhouse package cannot be loaded together with -me or -ms. What do other people do ? For system managers, how do you overcome the learning/documentation barrier of nroff ? / Lars Poulsen <Lars@ACC.ARPA> ------
jose rodriguez <jrodrig@mitre-gateway.ARPA> (01/04/85)
Hey,
Nothing beats the tuple {emacs,ispell,scribe,dover}. Now I am
stuck with {(vi,ed(!)),spell+edtypo,nroff,(lpt,imagen)} and how I long
for the past. The imagen is not bad though. oh well
Jose
jrodrig@mitre-gw
anyone heard of tops20 in a chip?henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (01/06/85)
> For system managers, how do you overcome the learning/documentation > barrier of nroff ? Here, we do it with a locally-improved -ms, plus extensive locally-done documentation for same. Teaching ordinary users (or even un-ordinary users doing ordinary things) to use raw nroff is neither appropriate nor practical. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry