colflgg@hubcap.clemson.edu (john f passafiume) (08/30/90)
We have a campus-wide license for System V and would like to get access to ditroff. We understand that we can send copy of cover page of license (the page with signatures) and small amount of $$ to Berkeley and we will get ditroff, pic and other stuff. Can anyone help with FAX number to Berkeley so that we can expedite request.
mike@raven.uss.tek.com (Mike Ewan) (08/31/90)
In article <10266@hubcap.clemson.edu> colflgg@hubcap.clemson.edu (john f passafiume) writes: >We have a campus-wide license for System V and would like to get access >to ditroff. We understand that we can send copy of cover page of license >(the page with signatures) and small amount of $$ to Berkeley and we >will get ditroff, pic and other stuff. Can anyone help with FAX number >to Berkeley so that we can expedite request. Actually you might try groff (GNU roff), which is a direct replacement for ditroff, pic, tbl, eqn, and transcript, and is FREE. I don't know about portability to SysV, but it's worth a try. It's available via ftp from gatekeeper.dec.com (16.1.0.2). We've installed and tested it and are quite pleased. Mike -- Michael Ewan (503)627-6468 Internet: mike@raven.USS.TEK.COM Unix Systems Support UUCP: ...!tektronix!puffin!raven!mike Tektronix, Inc. Compuserve: 73747,2304 "Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec."--J. Hart
jim@nature.berkeley.edu (08/31/90)
In article <10266@hubcap.clemson.edu> colflgg@hubcap.clemson.edu (john f passafiume) writes: >We have a campus-wide license for System V and would like to get access >to ditroff. We understand that we can send copy of cover page of license >(the page with signatures) and small amount of $$ to Berkeley and we >will get ditroff, pic and other stuff. Can anyone help with FAX number >to Berkeley so that we can expedite request. Contact: Campus Software Office 2320 Shattuck Ave, Suite B Berkeley CA 94704 (415)-643-7201 FAX: (415)-642-4566 email: domino@garnet.berkeley.edu They sell "UCSF Enhanced troff/Transcript 2.2", which is much improved over the raw AT&T and Adobe products. (BTW, this is ditroff, not troff.) Unfortunately you must have SOURCE licenses for both troff and Transcript, if you want to buy this package. And they want REAL proof! Cost is $400.00 per mini-computer, or $800.00 per workstation-cluster. Not cheap by the time you factor in the cost of the AT&T/Adobe source licenses.
pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) (09/01/90)
In article <6486@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM> mike@raven.uss.tek.com (Mike Ewan) writes:
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=Actually you might try groff (GNU roff), which is a direct replacement
=for ditroff, pic, tbl, eqn, and transcript, and is FREE. I don't know
=about portability to SysV, but it's worth a try. It's available via
=ftp from gatekeeper.dec.com (16.1.0.2). We've installed and tested
=it and are quite pleased.
Isn't groff written in C++?
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In article <6486@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM> mike@raven.uss.tek.com (Mike Ewan) writes: > >Actually you might try groff (GNU roff), which is a direct replacement >for ditroff, pic, tbl, eqn, and transcript, and is FREE. I don't know >about portability to SysV, but it's worth a try. It's available via >ftp from gatekeeper.dec.com (16.1.0.2). We've installed and tested >it and are quite pleased. > >Mike > >-- > Michael Ewan (503)627-6468 Internet: mike@raven.USS.TEK.COM > Unix Systems Support UUCP: ...!tektronix!puffin!raven!mike > Tektronix, Inc. Compuserve: 73747,2304 >"Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec."--J. Hart Works fine under SysV/386 be warned it is written in c++ so you will need g++ which needs gcc. I have it running under ESIX and Interactive. -- It is easier to build a | Brian Beattie (703)471-7552 secure system than it is | 11525 Hickory Cluster, Reston, VA. 22090 to build a correct system.| M. Gasser | ...uunet!visenix!beattie
kaul@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rich Kaul) (09/02/90)
In article <1990Sep1.143205.17957@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:
Isn't groff written in C++?
Yes. So if you don't have a C++ compiler sitting around, you should
also get g++.
(And he's right, groff is a very nice package, one worth installing
g++ for)
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kaul@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu | knew what we were doing.zoo@grumpy.spa.umn.edu (david d [zoo] zuhn) (09/04/90)
Mark == markh@squirrel.LABS.TEK.COM Someone> Isn't groff written in C++? Mark> It sure is. In fact, it is also dependent upon libg++. I expect that Mark> compilation by a C++ compiler other than g++ would be substantial work. Mark> G++ does work with SysV so you might have a chance. Groff does seem to Mark> work quite well and as a bonus includes an X11 previewer. It also has Mark> an option to produce dvi format (as well as postscript, of course) so Mark> it should be usable with all sorts of printers. Sorry. My libg++ is a minimal subset (gnulib3.o and xyzzy.o), which is the same as the libg++ used for development of groff (according to the docs). Everything worked just fine. This is from the groff 0.4 INSTALL file: Groff has been compiled on a Sun 4 under SunOS 4.0.3 with g++ 1.37.1 and with AT&T C++ 2.0, and on a 386 PC under 386/ix 2.0.1 with g++ 1.37.1 configured to use gas and GNU ld. You may encounter problems on other machines that I cannot anticipate. If you are using g++, you will need to install the header files from libg++. The only other parts of libg++ used by groff are contained in the files xyzzy.c and gnulib3.c; the libg++.a that I use contains only xyzzy.o and gnulib3.o. david d [zoo] zuhn Univ. of Minnesota Dept. of Astronomy zoo@aps1.spa.umn.edu Automated Plate Scanner Project