[comp.unix.sysv386] groff

kjk@PacBell.COM (Ken Keirnan) (09/24/90)

Just before the formation of the new comp.unix.xxx newsgroups, I posted
a request for sites that had groff binaries for 386/ix available via
ftp or uucp.  Apparently the posting fell through the cracks so once more
I beg for binaries.  Any groff binary sites??

Thanks,

Ken Keirnan
kjk@pacbell.com
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Ken Keirnan - Pacific Bell - {att,bellcore,sun,ames,pyramid}!pacbell!kjk
  San Ramon, California	                    kjk@PacBell.COM

ron@mlfarm.com (Ronald Florence) (01/31/91)

Some weeks ago, i386 binaries of groff version 0.4, were posted to
comp.unix.sysv386.  Unfortunately, those binaries do not work with the
mm macros.  When I reported the error, James Clark <jclark!jjc>, the
author of groff, wrote:

 > I can't reproduce the problem either using the current version of
 > troff or using version 0.4.  [...]
 > The only explanation I can think of is that your gtroff binary is
 > broken: perhaps it was compiled with an old and buggy version of g++.

I have also tried Esix binaries of groff 1.0 which were offered by a
generous net reader: they dump core under Xenix.

Those of us who do not have room to bring up g++ and groff could still
use a working Xenix binary of groff, preferably a more recent version.
Perhaps someone would like to earn the eternal gratitude of me and
others by making Xenix binaries of groff 1.0 available via anonymous
uucp and/or ftp.

Thanks.
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Ronald Florence			ron@mlfarm.com