Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!dayton!ems!rosevax!rosesun!dave From: dave@rosesun.Rosemount.COM (Dave Marquardt) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: "Berkeley version" of ditroff ? Message-ID: <1550@rosevax.Rosemount.COM> Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 15:04:17 EDT Article-I.D.: rosevax.1550 Posted: Thu Jul 16 15:04:17 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jul-87 01:18:15 EDT References: <1490@rosevax.Rosemount.COM> <360e65f8.1054@apollo.uucp> Sender: news@rosevax.Rosemount.COM Reply-To: dave@rosesun.Rosemount.COM (Dave Marquardt) Distribution: na Organization: Rosemount Inc., Eden Prairie, MN Lines: 26 In article <360e65f8.1054@apollo.uucp> roc@apollo.uucp (Richard Curtis) writes: >dave@rosevax.Rosemount.COM asks: > >> At some time in the distant past I'd seen references to a "Berkeley version" >> of ditroff. Is this real, or was this a bad pointer? If it is real, >> what is this "Berkeley version" and how would I get it? > > This appears to be a semantic problem. In my > world (at least), there are just two kinds of troff. Richard goes on to explain the old C/A/T troff vs. device independent troff. Well, there actually is a Berkeley ditroff. If you have a source license for System V Release 2 (and maybe higher -- there's some confusion here) or for Documenter's Workbench, you can get Ditroff/Gremlin from UCB's EECS/ERL Industrial Liaison Program for $175. The major differences are that it's been reworked to compile and run nicely on 4.3 BSD systems and to use the 4.3 BSD spooling facilities. Another addition is Gremlin, a line-drawing program that runs on the Sun and produces code you can include in your text with a filter called "grn". If you're interested in this, send me mail and I'll send you more details. If I get enough interest I'll post the information to this newsgroup. Dave