hardie@sask.UUCP (Peter Hardie ) (02/06/86)
A text formatter called PROFF was posted to net.sources a while ago. It is based on the FORMAT utility in Software Tools and is intended to be used on microcomputers. I've just finished hauling the text onto my amiga and have compiled and run it. Apart from a minor fix (described later) it compile AND ran FIRST time (using lattice 3.02). It has a documentation file that is 50Kb long which PROFF formatted in exactly two minutes to produce a file of 61.5Kb. If you haven't got yourself a really fancy word processor but want to produce formatted text ... go for it. It doesn't know beans about fancy printers etc. (for example it overstrikes to produce boldface) but that's no severe hardship and the code can probably be fixed up. The minor fix is to take the line struct lexlist (*(*lextable ...... etc... out of the file lookup.h. Put the line into both of the files ltb.c and lookup.c and in look.c add the line with an extern on the front. This prevents the loader from complaining about multiply defined lextables. Pete Hardie MAIL: ihnp4!sask!hardie