Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: sco xenix troff: dumb questions Message-ID: <12720@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 2 Dec 88 21:57:18 GMT References: <3336@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 35 In article <3336@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> kinmonthprep@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes: | (1) | Is all the "Imagen" stuff that comes with SCO Xenix useful | for anything? I've asked around the University and have | found only one person of even claims to have heard of the | company (okay, so it is an agricultural school). Works fine on an Imagen printer. I don't recall any other proprietary format being portable, either. | (2) | Why does SCO supply an ancient version of troff with | drivers for great devices like model 33 teletypes? Is this | because they make more money on their Lyrix word processor? I believe that the version of troff supplied is the latest. You have perhaps confused this with 'ditroff' which is a diferrent product with similar function. They supply it because it is what they have as a licensed product. For about the same money you can get eroff from Elan and have a product which goes to your LaserJet printers. I don't know about Postscript, but someone will indoubtedly post an answer ;-) My biggest complaint about the nroff is that when you order 386 "complete Xenix" you get the nroff compiled for the 8086. Needless to say performance is really bad. I was very unhappy with my version for speed, although it does what I want eventually. I use troff as my idle daemon for anything big, set the nice to 19 and let it crawl in the background. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me