rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) (02/11/91)
Archive-name: text/troff/xfmt/1991-02-09 Archive: uunet.uu.net:/comp.sources.unix/volume16/xfmt.Z [137.39.1.2] Original-posting-by: rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) Original-subject: Re: YELP about obtaining nroff (longish) Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) jim@crom2.uucp (James P. H. Fuller) writes: >In summary, I've really run into a blank wall on this. > > WHERE CAN I GET NROFF? (I can't FTP, I'm a uucp-only site.) > > Or where can I get fake nroff, or enough of nroff to read ... This frustrated me too, but there is a simple solution. Get flex from uunet.uu.net in directory comp.sources.unix/volume19/flex2 (files part01-07), and get xfmt from the same system (file comp.sources.unix/volume16/xfmt.Z). This will fix your problem; you can then type 'xfmt -mu foo.man > foo.1' to create readable man pages. It uses termcap to translate certain escape sequences. I also had to patch a couple of places in xfmt source, because it assumes 'printf ("%s", NULL)' prints nothing whereas the Microsoft library prints '(null)' for that case. That's the only source bug I can recall. I know nothing about how to use uucp, but I know uunet is easy enough to get to. -rich