ciemo@bananaPC.wpd.sgi.com (Dave Ciemiewicz) (09/08/90)
There have been requests on this alias for PD alternatives for formatting nroff documents, especially for manual page viewing. A program called awf was posted to comp.sources.unix. Its creator is Henry Spencer at the University of Toronto. It may be suitable for preformatting 3rd party manual pages so that IRIX man command can display them. --- Ciemo
karron@MCIRPS2.MED.NYU.EDU (09/09/90)
Great !
Where can I get it (Henry Spencers awf) ?
How do I get somthing in comp.sources.unix ? I don't have rn,
and the main university does not keep postings more than a few days.
If you have Henry Spencers e-mail address, can I write him ?
dan.
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+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) (09/10/90)
karron@MCIRPS2.MED.NYU.EDU writes: >Where can I get it (Henry Spencers awf) ? >How do I get somthing in comp.sources.unix ? I don't have rn, > and the main university does not keep postings more than a few days. cs.toronto.edu:pub/awf.shar.Z is a copy straight from Henry's uucppublic. (It's also on uunet.uu.net by now, and every comp.sources.unix archive, presumably) Mark. PS: No, Ed. Don't repost this! :-) From comp.archives Thu Sep 6 20:20:16 EDT 1990 Path: news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!emv From: moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) Newsgroups: comp.archives Subject: [news.software.b] Re: cnews expire takes forever Keywords: awf, nroff clone, written in old awk, henry spencer lunacy (:-) Message-ID: <1990Sep6.225856.18153@math.lsa.umich.edu> Date: 6 Sep 90 22:58:56 GMT Sender: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Reply-To: moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) Followup-To: news.software.b Organization: (none) Lines: 48 Approved: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) X-Original-Newsgroups: news.software.b Archive-name: awf/06-Sep-90 Original-posting-by: moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) Original-subject: Re: cnews expire takes forever Archive-site: cs.toronto.edu [128.100.1.65] Archive-directory: /pub Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) In news.software.b you write: >Needless to say, I will force myself to reformat ALL of the docs and read >them completely before going any farther. (anybody know of a good PD >{n|t}roff that I can get hold of?) Henry made a cryptic mention of awf, written specifically for this purpose. Since it hasn't shown up in comp.sources.unix yet, an easier way to grab it might be to snarf pub/awf.shar.Z by anonymous ftp from cs.toronto.edu. Here's awf.README. Perhaps some kind soul from osu-cis or uunet will put it there for people without Internet access. Alternatively, try the ftp by mail service offered by bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu (send a message saying "help") If you have GNU C++ (g++), you may want to grab groff instead and get it working. It'll probably run a tad faster. On the other hand, awf is smaller. Mark. ---------- This is awf, the Amazingly Workable Formatter -- a "nroff -man" or (subset) "nroff -ms" clone written entirely in (old) awk. It is slow and has many restrictions, but does a decent job on most manual pages and simple -ms documents, and isn't subject to AT&T's brain-damaged licensing that denies many System V users any text formatter at all. It is also a text formatter that is simple enough to be tinkered with, for people who want to experiment. Type "make r" to run a regression test, formatting the manual page (awf.1) and comparing it to a preformatted copy (awf.1.out). Type "make install" to install it. Pathnames may need changing. I don't know whether awf will run on 16-bit machines. Data requirements are modest, but I fear the programs are probably big enough to run awk out of space. I can't believe I really wrote this. Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry 13 July 1990
lovstran@EuroPARC.Xerox.COM (Lennart Lovstrand) (09/10/90)
In article <1990Sep8.005221.6101@relay.wpd.sgi.com> ciemo@bananaPC.wpd.sgi.com (Dave Ciemiewicz) writes: > There have been requests on this alias for PD alternatives for formatting > nroff documents, especially for manual page viewing. A program called awf > [...] You may also want to take a look at James Clark's ``groff'' in the GNU archives at prep.ai.mit.edu. Groff includes an implementation of troff, pic, eqn, tbl, and the man macros and has drivers for Postscript, TeX DVI, and typewriter-like devices. Also included is a modified version of the Berkeley me macros, and an enhanced version of the X11R4 xditview. It requires GNU's g++ 1.37.1 (available at the same location) or any commercial C++ compiler implementing version 2.0 of the C++ language. Works great! --Lennart -- Lennart <Lovstrand@EuroPARC.Xerox.COM> R _A _ N_ K Rank Xerox EuroPARC, 61 Regent St, Cambridge, UK \/ |_ |_) | | \/ Zany, Sun-4/60 at EuroPARC, SunOS Release 4(0.3c)-3 /\ |_ | \ |_| /\ TOPS-20 Command processor 7(65)-3 [*PRERELEASE*] E u r o P A R C