era@ncar.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold) (06/29/90)
I have a psfig/ditroff mystery in need of a solution. About 3 months ago, I posted an inquiry about what software was available to merge postscript figures into ditroff documents. The responses I received said to use either psfig, available via ftp from linc.cis.upenn.edu, or Elan Computer Group's "eroff". I tried psfig first, since we already have Transcript 2.2 and ditroff source. The ditroff source we have was purchased in 1989. The tape does not give a version number, but the paperwork sent to AT&T specified "DWB 2.0". Since the psfig documentation says you need DWB 2.0 or later (because psfig uses the "\X" construct), I figured we were OK. After installing psfig, running the psfig documentation produced a *mess* on paper and a core dump from ditroff. Looking thru the "UNIX System V Documentor's Workbench Software Release 2.0, Technical Discussion and Reference Manual", specifically the TROFF(5) man page which describes what the output language of ditroff means, I found there was NO "x X string" mentioned as part of the output. Sure 'nuff, typing "\X'string'\n" at ditroff did not result in "x X string\n" in the output. The question is: did AT&T *really* make this modification to ditroff, or is this an urban legend? Or perhaps we ordered 2.0, but got something older instead? If AT&T did not make this modification, does anybody out there have a patch which will add this feature to n1.c, version 1.5, before I burn the time to do it myself? Here is a list of the SCCS ID keywords from files in the troff subdirectory of the DWB tape received from AT&T, and a "cpio -ictv" listing of the files in the troff subdir. If anyone who is successfully using psfig can tell me how this compares with their ditroff, I would appreciate it. README:SCCS @(#)README 1.3 README.daps:SCCS @(#)README.daps 1.2 d.h:/* @(#)d.h 1.1 */ dev.h:/* @(#)dev.h 1.1 */ draw.c:/* @(#)draw.c 1.1 */ ext.h:/* @(#)ext.h 1.1 */ hc.c:/* @(#)hc.c 1.1 */ hytab.c:/* @(#)hytab.c 1.1 */ makedev.c:/* @(#)makedev.c 1.2 */ n1.c:char xxxn1v[] = "@(#)n1.c 1.5"; n2.c:/* @(#)n2.c 1.2 */ n3.c:/* @(#)n3.c 1.1 */ n4.c:/* @(#)n4.c 1.1 */ n5.c:/* @(#)n5.c 1.1 */ n7.c:/* @(#)n7.c 1.3 */ n8.c:/* @(#)n8.c 1.1 */ n9.c:/* @(#)n9.c 1.1.1.1 */ nii.c:/* @(#)nii.c 1.1 */ s.h:/* @(#)s.h 1.1 */ suftab.c:/* @(#)suftab.c 1.1 */ t10.c:/* @(#)t10.c 1.1 */ t6.c:/* @(#)t6.c 1.2 */ ta.c:/* @(#)ta.c 1.1 */ tc.c:/* @(#)tc.c 1.2 */ tdef.h:/* @(#)tdef.h 1.2 */ troff.sh:# @(#)troff.sh 1.1 v.h:/* @(#)v.h 1.1 */ 100666 root 22337 Mar 10 12:52:50 1986 troff/d202.c 100664 root 1261 Mar 10 12:52:50 1986 troff/dev.h 100666 root 8006 Mar 10 12:52:50 1986 troff/draw.c 100664 root 2853 Mar 10 12:52:50 1986 troff/ext.h 100666 root 15089 Mar 10 12:52:51 1986 troff/hc.c 100664 root 7195 Mar 10 12:52:51 1986 troff/hytab.c 100666 root 8991 Mar 10 12:52:52 1986 troff/makedev.c 100666 root 20574 Mar 10 12:52:52 1986 troff/n1.c 100666 root 10024 Mar 10 12:52:53 1986 troff/n10.c 100664 root 3841 Mar 10 12:52:53 1986 troff/n2.c 100664 root 14613 Mar 10 12:52:53 1986 troff/n3.c 100664 root 10268 Mar 10 12:52:53 1986 troff/n4.c 100666 root 13144 Mar 10 12:52:54 1986 troff/n5.c 100666 root 5498 Mar 10 12:52:54 1986 troff/n6.c 100666 root 11726 Mar 10 12:52:54 1986 troff/n7.c 100664 root 4346 Mar 10 12:52:54 1986 troff/n8.c 100664 root 8310 Mar 10 12:52:55 1986 troff/n9.c 100666 root 6564 Mar 10 12:52:55 1986 troff/ni.c 100664 root 1507 Mar 10 12:52:55 1986 troff/nii.c 100644 root 1538 Mar 10 12:52:56 1986 troff/tab.37 100644 root 1920 Mar 10 12:52:56 1986 troff/tab.450 100664 root 19121 Mar 10 12:52:56 1986 troff/suftab.c 100644 root 1349 Mar 10 12:52:56 1986 troff/tab.lp 100666 root 18132 Mar 10 12:52:57 1986 troff/daps.c 100666 root 10603 Mar 10 12:52:57 1986 troff/t10.c 100664 root 13236 Mar 10 12:52:58 1986 troff/t6.c 100666 root 13767 Mar 10 12:52:59 1986 troff/ta.c 100666 root 19494 Mar 10 12:52:59 1986 troff/tc.c 100666 root 13288 Mar 10 12:53:00 1986 troff/tdef.h 100666 root 1184 Mar 10 12:53:00 1986 troff/tw.h 100666 root 21843 Mar 10 12:53:01 1986 troff/dcat.c 100666 root 19300 Mar 10 12:53:01 1986 troff/d8400.c 100666 root 6794 Mar 10 12:53:02 1986 troff/README 100644 root 1828 Mar 10 12:53:15 1986 troff/aps.h -- Ed Arnold * NCAR * POB 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000 * 303-497-1253(w) era@ncar.ucar.edu [128.117.64.4] * era@ncario.bitnet * era@ncar.uucp "See, the human mind is kind of like ... a pinata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside." --Jane Wagner/Lily Tomlin
gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) (06/29/90)
n1.c 1.5 is from DWB 1.0; n1.c 2.13 is the DWB 2.0 version, and it does support \X'...'. Apparently you got the wrong version.