Follow-up Comment #15, bug #60602 (project groff): > In fact, a C version of cat2dit that would run on V7 Unix under SIMH would, in my imagination, kick ass. (People really wanted one, back in the '80s.) Then there would be no data migration issue or octal dumping to mess with. Run SIMH in a terminal window with enough scrollback and you could just copy and paste the entire ditroff output to wherever you wanted.
I've an even better idea: implement a driver for SIMH's PDP-11 emulator that advertises itself as a connected C/A/T device. It's possible to emulate paper-tape rolls and even Ethernet adapters for a SIMH client, but that's well above my paygrade: http://simh.trailing-edge.com/pdf/pdp11_doc.pdf I imagine most of the terminology in this document is less opaque to you than it is to me (Hell, I can barely write a C program to save my life). In any case, if you still want a non-JS implementation of cat2dit, the source I got it from was a C header file with all the macros provided and ready to go <https://github.com/Alhadis/otroff/blob/92683053f9aad5b926fc447843bf2092ad59cebf/cat.h>. They even provided a man page <https://github.com/Alhadis/otroff/blob/92683053f9aad5b926fc447843bf2092ad59cebf/cat.5>! The original UseNet post was https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.text/IFbbkuI91nA _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60602> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/
