From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 2 09:29:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9344537B404 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 09:29:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pilchuck.reedmedia.net (pilchuck.reedmedia.net [209.166.74.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B80A243F85 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 09:29:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reed@reedmedia.net) Received: from reed by pilchuck.reedmedia.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19XkUG-0004nB-00; Wed, 02 Jul 2003 09:29:40 -0700 Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 09:29:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200307021042.h62Aggig032205@grimreaper.grondar.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: replacement for nroff (was Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!") X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 16:29:45 -0000 On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Mark Murray wrote: > You'd lose the ability to read man pages. This is not low-impact. I have been trying old awf and cawf. cawf is a C version of Henry Spencer's Amazingly Workable (text) Formatter by Vic Abell. I have built it under NetBSD. It supports various nroff and -man, -me and -ms, but it needs various additions to its macros. For example, it needs: .It Pa -- it wants lowercase .it .Xr .Sh -- it wants .SH .Nm .Dt -- it wants .DT .Dd .Nd -- it wants .ND .Op Fl .Bl The 4.10 version I have been looking at is from http://www.tux.org/pub/sites/vic.cc.purdue.edu/ You can find man pages for cawf via google. http://minix1.bio.umass.edu/pub/minix.2.0/2.0.0/wwwman/man1/nroff.1.html Also look at http://www.moon-soft.com/program/C/C2/C-43/CAWF407/00DIFFS Is anyone interested in helping with improving this? Also I read that some old freeware versions of nroff are available (probably for old MSDOS). Does anyone have any URLs for these? Jeremy C. Reed http://www.reedmedia.net/