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From: ptseg@cal-unix
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Subject: stripped down nroff out there anywhere
Message-ID: <673@cal-unix>
Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 11:26:18 EST
Article-I.D.: cal-unix.673
Posted: Fri Nov  8 11:26:18 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 16:15:36 EST
Reply-To: ptseg@cal-uni.UUCP (Peter Thaggard)
Organization: CALCULON BC#1, Rockville, MD.
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Keywords: nroff cpu-hog


We are running 4.1 UNIX on a VAX 11/750; much of our work involves cranking
out large documents and printouts of databases.  Both these tasks involve
a lot of nroffing, which seems to hog all the time on our computer.  After
examining a lot of the nroff-able docs on our system, I found that there
are at most five nroff commands that are used(i.e. .bp, .nf, .ce) in
99.9% of the documents.  Does anyone out there have a stripped-down version
of nroff that only implements the really rudimentary parts of the program?
If so, I would greatly appreciate any info about it.  I figure a small nroff
in place of the now-monstrous one would greatly ease the burden on our
poor little computer, and give me more time to do important things, like
play rogue.

By the way, we have a 4.1 src license.

Peter Thaggard,
cal-uni!ptseg