moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) (09/07/90)
Archive-name: awk/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
moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) (09/07/90)
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
revell@uunet.UU.NET (James R Revell Jr) (09/10/90)
Archive-name: awf/07-Sep-90 Original-posting-by: revell@uunet.UU.NET (James R Revell Jr) Original-subject: Re: cnews expire takes forever Archive-site: uunet.uu.net [192.48.96.2] Archive-directory: /pub Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) In article <90Sep6.175510edt.558@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) writes: >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 pub/awf.shar.Z no available via uucp, anon FTP to uunet.uu.net, and anon uucp on 900-GOT-SRCS -- James Revell uunet postmaster revell@uunet.uu.net /8^{~