TKIRKMAN%MOE@MSUS1.MSUS.EDU (Tom Kirkman) (04/24/91)
I'm afraid this is another FAQ from a not-too-competent unix person. I am trying to get mathematica's man pages up on my 4D/25. (Wolfram sends un-nroffed man pages even to personal iris users.) Of course, I didn't buy DWB since my rep never told me it existed. I have access to a sun where I tried neqn file.1 | tbl | nroff | col | compress >file.Z without success. So, my question is, given access to Suns & DECstations it possible to produce irix man pages w/o spending $300 on DWB? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Kirkman DECnet: 55860::TKIRKMAN Dept. of Physics HEP-> MNHEP::55860:: SPAN-> WAVES::55860:: St. John's University INTERnet: tkirkman%55860@vx.acs.umn.edu Collegeville, MN 56321 tkirkman%55860@msus1.msus.edu (612) 363-3811 BITnet: tkirkman@csbsju (612) 363-3151 FAX:(612) 363-2504 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman) (04/24/91)
So, my question is, given access to Suns & DECstations it possible
to produce irix man pages w/o spending $300 on DWB?
Use: nroff -man
This is a cleaver option. The option is -m with an argument 'an'.
At least as of 3.3.1, no DWB means no nroff. So this won't get you
very far. There is an awk-based formatter called AWF (A workable
formatter) written by Henry Spencer. A version for IRIX including a
fake nroff/tbl/eqn script is available by anonymous ftp to
fresnel.stanford.edu. Look for pub/4D/awf-sgi.tar.Z
-jim
Jim Helman
Department of Applied Physics Durand 012
Stanford University FAX: (415) 725-3377
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In article <2EB2E22A400004B0@MSUS1.MSUS.EDU> TKIRKMAN%MOE@MSUS1.MSUS.EDU (Tom Kirkman) writes: >I have access to a sun where I tried >neqn file.1 | tbl | nroff | col | compress >file.Z >without success. > >So, my question is, given access to Suns & DECstations it possible >to produce irix man pages w/o spending $300 on DWB? Use: nroff -man This is a cleaver option. The option is -m with an argument 'an'. John H. Merritt --> merritt@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov Applied Research Corporation at NASA/GSFC "I am generally intolerant of ignorance, but I have made an exception in your case."
merritt@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov (John H Merritt) (04/25/91)
In article <JIM.91Apr24114831@baroque.Stanford.EDU> you write: > > So, my question is, given access to Suns & DECstations it possible ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ He was running the command 'nroff' on these machines which have DWB. I was merely giving him the options to use and assumed that he could put them into context. >At least as of 3.3.1, no DWB means no nroff. So this won't get you >very far. Don't flame me. Just provide this information ... > There is an awk-based formatter called AWF (A workable [bla...] Flame me if the original poster was a 'she' :-) John H. Merritt --> merritt@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov Applied Research Corporation at NASA/GSFC "I am generally intolerant of ignorance, but I have made an exception in your case."