Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cal-unix Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!cal-unix!ptseg From: ptseg@cal-unix Newsgroups: net.wanted 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. Lines: 20 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