Date:	Sun, 16 Mar 1997 15:48:43 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	"G.W. Owen" <mad14 AT cc DOT keele DOT ac DOT uk>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: groff
In-Reply-To:	<5gbkr4$45t@gerry.cc.keele.ac.uk>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.970316154647.12150P-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On 14 Mar 1997, G.W. Owen wrote:

> : OK, I'll bite: what the hell is groff?
> : 
> gnu run-off, it turns an incredibly cryptic markup language into
> something that terminals can print.

It's no more cryptic that HTML, just shorter.  And it's not for terminals 
at all, it was originally intended for driving a typesetter, to print the 
docs on paper.

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