6 Oct
2024
6 Oct
'24
6:54 p.m.
On 6 Oct 2024, at 00:22, G. Branden Robinson
<g.branden.robinson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Unix nroff got frozen
in amber in 1978 with respect to terminal support, and continues to live
in a world where the termcap and terminfo libraries were never written.
Nroff did actually read in the output description from, if I remember
correctly, /usr/lib/termtab/xxx with the argument -Txxx. these where
stripped object files. I have made them for Diable daisy-wheel printers. Some
could create bold characters by overprinting and we once had one with two
print heads, the second head had an italics daisy-wheel mounted.
jaap