On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:22:23 -0300 "Angus Auld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings, could some kind soul tell me what program I can use to read > Troff documents? A friend of mine has a Mac, and they have sent me a > couple documents that I have thus far been unable to read. Is Troff a > Mac proprietary format? I find it really odd that a Mac user would send a document in any troff like format. troff (text runoff) is an early Unix documentation facility comprising a few related programs. One would basically edit the document with an editor and then use any of a number of roff programs to "runoff' a printed copy, hence the name. What you're looking for is "groff" (gnu's version) which would include a number of packages for the various components. Chances are these are already installed, since it's used a lot for "man" pages which are written in that format. Also handy would be something to view postscript output, such as "gv". Normally something like: $ groff -T ps <filename> | lpr would print one of these documents out. > --Angus -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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