[comp.text.desktop] ditroff / dwb / pic patches available?

ira@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Ira Chayut) (01/17/91)

This is being posted for a friend without direct USENET access, please 
respond directly to him.  Thanks.   (Sorry for this being posted a second
time, the first only had local distribution.)
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I have a copy of a program called "mkfont" (posted to the net at some time
in the past by Duane H. Hesser, dhh@teltone.com) which duplicates the
action of the AT&T DWB "makedev" program (useful because the default action
in DWB is to not install makedev, and as a result, some binary-only DWB
installations don't have a makedev).

In the README file for this program, there is the following note:

>If you use  these to produce  Postscript font files,  be aware of  the
>standard ditroff limit of 10 fonts (enforced by core dump).  I believe
>patches to  fix  this  and  other bugs  are  in  the  USENET  archives
>somewhere.   For those  of you  with  Pyramids, RTOC  can send  you  a
>version which will  handle up to  25 files; otherwise  you'll have  to
>pick and  chose.    NOTE:  mkfont will  compile  them  fine  (as  will
>makedev), but ditroff won't like 'em.

I have poked through the listing of files available on UUNET, and through a
recent comp.sources.unix index, and don't find any reference to such a
package of fixes.  If such fixes are indeed available, legal, and someone
knows of their whereabouts - or better yet, has them and can send them to
me - I would be most appreciative.

Oh - and while we're at it, if anyone has patches to pic, that would be
helpful as well.  Trying to get this working reliably on a client's
machine, with what appears to be DWB 2.0.  The version string in pic is
1.10, in {n,t}roff 2.13.

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Thanks,

Mats Wichmann
UNIX / X Windows Consultant
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