tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) (04/29/89)
Does anyone know why AT&T doesn't offer the Documenter's Workbench
for System V/386? I know you can buy it from, say, I*******ve (name
cloaked to preserve decorum here in comp.sys.att <grin>) so it must
have been ported. But why not from AT&T? Right now I have to ferry
manual pages over to a Sequent and format them there just to install
packages and such!
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"Truisms aren't everything." Internet: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NETfmcgee@cuuxb.ATT.COM (Netnews Administrator) (04/30/89)
In article <14291@bfmny0.UUCP> tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes: >Does anyone know why AT&T doesn't offer the Documenter's Workbench >for System V/386? I know you can buy it from, say, I*******ve (name >cloaked to preserve decorum here in comp.sys.att <grin>) so it must >have been ported. But why not from AT&T? Right now I have to ferry >manual pages over to a Sequent and format them there just to install >packages and such! The question of why AT&T doesn't sell troff or nroff came up about a year ago in a 3.2 training session I attended. Basically the answer given (from a product manager) was that there were already many Xenix text processing packages out there, so customers should get it third party. My presumption is that they thought the demand wasn't great enough to turn troff/nroff into a profitable product. DWB probably went the same route as well. Sorry, but you can't get it from AT&T (atleast not on 386 unix). -- Frank McGee, AT&T Tier 3 Indirect Channel Sales Support attmail!fmcgee