Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.text Subject: Re: Speedup idea for troff/nroff Message-ID: <7524@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Jan-87 16:48:23 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.7524 Posted: Wed Jan 14 16:48:23 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Jan-87 16:48:23 EST References: <387@ivax.doc.ic.ac.uk>, <5489@brl-smoke.ARPA> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 13 > ... New troff dropped this (probably because BWK never had it in his > version). I have a dim recollection, which may be wrong, of one of the Research folks saying "we dropped that because it was too hard to keep the precompiled versions up to date with troff". Also, my recollection is that you couldn't precompile just any macro package; because of the odd way it was done, the package had to comply with some non-trivial restrictions on the order of operations. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry