[comp.unix.sysv386] Instructions -- System V/386 groff distribution

mauro@netcom.UUCP (Mauro DePalma) (01/10/91)

 Just posted is an uuencoded, compressed, tar file split into
 16 parts which comprises 'groff' for UNIX System V/386.

 Once installed you'll have groff (version 0.4) a full and
 (in my opinion) better alternative to Interactive or SCO
 Text Processing systems.

 ** Instructions **

   The 1st part has a very brief description of where this
   distribution came from; all other parts contain 2 blank
   lines in the beginning and 2 blank lines at the end.

     (1) remove comments from part 1
     (2) remove blank lines from all parts
     (3) combine all parts in order into a single file
     (4) use uudecode to obtain, 'groff.tar.Z'

   The rest is pretty much downhill.

      mauro (stardate 19910109.1132)

allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) (01/11/91)

As quoted from <20447@netcom.UUCP> by mauro@netcom.UUCP (Mauro DePalma):
+---------------
|  Just posted is an uuencoded, compressed, tar file split into
|  16 parts which comprises 'groff' for UNIX System V/386.
+---------------

(1) There are sources groups for this stuff.

(2) Have you ever heard of "shar"?  Especially since I will have no idea
    if this version of groff is still written in g++ (and hence unusable
    on the machine at work, where gnu ld is risky and g++ and gdb can't be
    made to work at all --- it's source compatible and mostly executable
    compatible but not .o file compatible) until I get to the office and get
    some free time and uudecode/uncompress/untar the whole thing to find
    out that I tied up the modem lines on ncoast and telotech for two hours
    for nothing.

Posting groff was a good idea.  But it could have been posted *correctly*
as well....

++Brandon
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