31 Jan
2012
31 Jan
'12
2:04 p.m.
Gosh, I'd forgotten about that. "Roff is the simplest of the text formatting
programs but is utterly frozen."
They finally dragged me off troff in the mid-90's.
On Jan 30, 2012, at 8:53 PM, Warren Toomey wrote:
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:36:31PM +1100, Greg
'groggy' Lehey wrote:
I've received a link
http://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html claiming to
be about man pages; in fact, it's a lot more than that, including the
prehistory of troff. Interesting stuff.
Greg
Thanks Greg, yes a good read. Pity we've lost the PDP-11 asm
version of roff from 1st/2nd Edition Unix.
Warren
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