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From: dave@rosesun.Rosemount.COM (Dave Marquardt)
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Subject: Re: "Berkeley version" of ditroff ?
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Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 15:04:17 EDT
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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