arnold@gatech.UUCP (Arnold Robbins) (03/27/84)
Here we go again: I talked today to ATT in N.C., to the lady who handles educational licensing of UNIX and UNIX-related products. Here is the straight info, and I apologize for my previous posting, which was based on incorrect info given to me by the operator who answered the phone there. 1) The bit about getting a letter to them before April 1 allowing you to upgrade to Release 2 for free was totally bogus. Sorry. I'm just as disap- pointed as you are. 2) If your System V license was signed by them between 12/1/83 and 3/31/84, you may upgrade to Release 2 for $400. Otherwise the upgrade is $800. 3) If you upgrade to Release 2, the Documenters Workbench comes with it. Otherwise, you have to license the Documenters' Workbench separately. Educational cost of Documenters Workbench: $1500. Non-educational cost: $4000. 4) Ditroff is available by itself, for an educational cost of $400. This is an older version; a newer, better version comes with Documenters Workbench. That is what you should pursue. 5) Documenters Workbench contains: troff (device independant), nroff, sroff (fast nroff), otroff (old version, apparently), plus macro packages (mm and man) and picture drawing programs. 6) They are not on the Usenet. I am sorry if my previous posting screwed anybody up. I hope that posting the straight info will help. Arnold (Troff Forever! Down with TeX and Scribe!) Robbins -- Arnold Robbins CSNET: arnold@gatech ARPA: arnold.gatech@CSNet-relay UUCP: ...!{akgua,allegra,rlgvax,sb1,ut-sally}!gatech!arnold "Look Bruce! It's the Bat Signal!"