Steve_Cobrin.SBDERX@xerox.com (10/06/89)
Keywords: nroff troff mm AT&T SunOs Original-Date: 27 Sep 89 14:18:05 +0100 (Wednesday) [Sorry if this is a bit late arriving, its bounced several times off our mailer] I have some documentation which has the extension .mm and tried formatting it. I discovered that Sun do not support the mm macros. What is more thay have no intention of supporting them! Apparently this item has been raised before. Sun have allocated it bug reference number # 1001755 (dated 28-Feb-82), but don't mean to do anything about it. I tried copying another machines mm macros, but this just caused the nroff to hang, I seem to remember somebody at Sun telling me (last year) that there was some incompatibility between the Sun Architecture and the macros, something to do with register usage !? Anybody with any helpful Sun-based solutions? -- Steve uucp address: ..!uunet!xerox.com!cobrin.sbderx Arpa address: cobrin.sbderx@Xerox.COM +------------------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Rank Xerox, | Overseas +44 707 38 2276 | | Office Systems Development & Support, | UK (0707) 38 2276 | | Customer Support Services, | Fax +44 707 38 2371 | | Welwyn Hall, Bessemer Road, +---------------------------------+ | Welwyn Garden City, Herts, | Xerox Intelnet: 8*668 2276 | | AL7 1LQ, England. | Xerox address: Cobrin:SBD-E:RX | +------------------------------------------+---------------------------------+
gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) (10/07/89)
In article <21064@adm.BRL.MIL> Steve_Cobrin.SBDERX@xerox.com writes: >I discovered that Sun do not support the mm macros. What is more thay >have no intention of supporting them! I got release 2.0 of AT&T's Documenter's WorkBench (which includes eqn, grap, pic, tbl, troff, nroff, -mm, and other stuff) ported to Sun-3s a few years ago. If you have an AT&T DWB 2.0 source license, contact me to arrange for a copy. You might also consider contacting SoftQuad in Toronto; they've enhanced DWB and provide it WITH support for a variety of systems. I have no idea why Sun doesn't wish to offer DWB themselves.