baynes@nusc.navy.mil (BAYNES) (08/30/89)
We are looking for a public domain version of PIC. Does anyone know of an available source? Bob Baynes CRAY SYSTEMS MANAGER ASECC/TAI Bldg. 112 South End NUSC Newport, R.I. (401)841-4249 baynes@nusc-npt.navy.mil
gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) (08/31/89)
In article <20743@adm.BRL.MIL> baynes@nusc.navy.mil (BAYNES) writes: > We are looking for a public domain version > of PIC. Does anyone know of an available > source? The original "pic" is licensed as part of AT&T's Documenter's WorkBench. (Release 2.0 is the most recent, I believe, and includes the version of "pic" that was augmented to support "grap".) I've worked extensively with the original "pic" source code, and I find it doubtful that anyone would have done the work necessary to produce an accurate clone. It's a fairly large and elaborate program. I suspect that SoftQuad (Toronto) has an improved version of "pic", but not for free. On the other hand, AT&T DWB licenses are fairly cheap. Why not just get the real thing? (Then you can get bug fixes from me.)
chen@digital.sps.mot.com (Jinfu Chen) (10/10/89)
Every once a while I find some *roff documents include simple pictures to be processed via `pic'. Where's this `pic' program comes from? Is it part of AT&T SYS 5.x or BSD 4.x release? Without `pic' I couldn't get RCS manual printed. Also one of the posting in comp.sources.x (X Window Intro?) uses `pic' extensively too. Reply via Email is preferred.
gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) (10/11/89)
In article <46215f96.81da@digital.sps.mot.com> chen@digital (Jinfu Chen) writes: >Every once a while I find some *roff documents include simple pictures >to be processed via `pic'. Where's this `pic' program comes from? "pic" is part of the Documenter's WorkBench package licensed by AT&T. Sometimes DWB is bundled with a vendor's implementation of UNIX, sometimes it is available from the vendor as an extra-cost option, and sometimes you have to turn to a third party (e.g. Elan, SoftQuad) to obtain it. I know of no public-domain implementation of "pic".