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From: kg@elan.UUCP (Ken Greer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.sources.wanted,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: : Xroff
Message-ID: <246@elan.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 87 22:46:32 GMT
References: <740@vixie.UUCP>
Organization: Elan Computer Group, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
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in article <740@vixie.UUCP>, paul@vixie.UUCP (Paul Vixie Esq) says:
> 
> In article <6224@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> shipley@web1d.berkeley.edu () writes:
>
>> Can anybody send me a review on the product "xroff".  I was told that
>> this a version of troff that you can preview using a X display.
> 
> I'd look at EROFF (sorry, don't know who makes it or where they are) before
> commiting to XROFF.  XROFF has a few oddball problems at one of my clients
> that I have never been able to resolve ...
> However, since XROFF is not a previewer, you probably don't care how good
> or bad it is at what it actually IS..
> 
>>Does it do what it claims ( or what I think it does )
> 
> Nope.
> 

Thanks for the plug, guys.  EROFF can be gotten from

	ELAN Computer Group, Inc.
	410 Cambridge Avenue, Suite A
	Palo Alto, CA 94306

	Phone: 415-322-2450
	Fax:   415-322-1915
	uucp:  {ames,hplabs}!elan!support

The X windows troff previewer is also from us; this is
what the requester was probably refering to.  It's called EVIEW/X.
It'll run on any CPU that supports X-windows 10.4.  (We're working
on an X-11 version too.)

Ken Greer
Elan Computer Group, Inc.
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Ken Greer
Elan Computer Group, Inc.
415-322-2450 
{ames,hplabs}!elan!kg