stever@tree.UUCP (Steve Rudek) (11/15/88)
I'd appreciate any leads on public domain clones of "nroff" and "spell." Microport, like an increasing number of vendors, sells the "text formatting" programs as an option. That's generally okay with me; I regard a Mac as the only way to go when doing fancy documents. However, the lack of two programs -- "nroff" and "spell" -- does pain me. In particular, I wish I had nroff. So many of the sources posted to the net include an "nroff"ed man page. I really don't even care about printing nroffed documents; I just want to be able to read them on my terminal. The "deroff" program which comes with Microport leaves a mess and has a tendancy to delete important text in the process of removing nroff codes. I believe that _Dr. Dobb's_ published an nroff clone some time back, but I don't know how exact a clone it was and, in particular, I don't think it supported terminal output. Have the GNU folks possibly been working on a clone? I've never used nroff so I've only a general idea what I'm asking for.