> On Jun 4, 2015, at 1:47 PM, Tom Gardner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have multiple DEC Runoff (.rno extension) files for the manual on DEC's > MSCP protocol. I'd like to convert them to a modern format. The manual is > dated circa 1992 incorporating ecos thru MSCP23-4 and is revision 2.4 (or > later) of MSCP. What appears to be an early version (Apr 1982 rev 1.2) is > at > http://www.textfiles.com/bitsavers/pdf/dec/disc/UDA50/AA-L619A-TK_MSCP_basFn > s_82.pdf > > > > I've searched for a convertor without much luck, there is a VMS Pascal > converter at https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/rnototex which > converts to LaTex which can then be converted to pdf, but I don't have any > DEC equipment.
There are Pascal compilers for Unix, for example gpc. It has its limitations but it may be sufficient. > ... > DECs Runoff is a markup language that sort of looks like an early HTML, so I > suppose I could try a grep conversion to HTML, or just strip out the markup. A much closer relative is Unix “troff” format, which apparently goes back to something in Multics called “runoff”. Fancy that. So you might dig up a troff manual (here’s one: http://www.troff.org/54.pdf) and convert to that. It looks like that wouldn’t be hard. paul
