Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ucsd!nosc!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!haven!umd5!uvaarpa!hudson!biochsn!wrp From: wrp@biochsn.acc.virginia.edu (William R. Pearson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: The me nroff/troff macro package. Message-ID: <503@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> Date: 21 Aug 88 13:58:26 GMT References: <672@force10.UUCP> Sender: news@hudson.acc.virginia.edu Reply-To: wrp@biochsn.acc.Virginia.EDU (William R. Pearson) Organization: University of Virginia, Charlottesville Lines: 17 In article <672@force10.UUCP> erskine@force10.UUCP (Neil Erskine) writes: > I have been trying to get the me macro package that originates >from Berkeley to work under the Xenix Text Processing System (Release 2.0), >but have had no luck. I put the files where I think they ought to go (tmac.e >in /usr/lib/tmac, and the others in /usr/lib/me), and say "nroff -me", it >is as though I just said nroff. If I say "cat tmac.e source.me | nroff", >I get ZERO, nothing. I do not know why, but Xenix's nroff/troff will not work with the -me macros. I also tried. Apparently they are using an old version of nroff/troff. I was able to get them to run by compiling current DWB nroff under Xenix, but it core dumps with some frequency. I also consider this a substantial shortcoming, that may be removed when the merged ATT/Microsoft product comes out (although now that DWB has been removed from Unix, nroff/troff may not be included). Bill Pearson