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Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 13:39:03 -0400
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From: Howard Kaikow <kaikow AT standards DOT com>
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of Groff 1.15 uploaded
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Which version of DJGPP is required to compile this groff?
Can it be done with DJGPP 2.01?

At 13:46 5/25/2000 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
 >
 >This is to announce that the DJGPP port of version 1.15 of the
 >Groff package is available from SimTel.NET mirrors worldwide:
 >
 > ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/gro115b.zip
 > ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/gro115s.zip
 >
 >Groff is a document-formatting and typesetting package.  It belongs to an
 >older generation of word-processing software that is not WYSIWYG;
 >instead, you edit the document source with a text editor, intersperse the
 >text with special directives that specify fonts and formatting
 >parameters, and then submit the source to a batch processor which produces
 >a ready-to-print or ready-to-read document.  troff, a program that is
 >standard on Unix, is used, even today, to write manual pages (those *.1
 >files you find in the man subdirectory of the DJGPP installation tree),
 >but it can also be used for writing very large and complex documents.
 >(Another, more modern program from the family of batch word-processors is
 >TeX.)
 >
 >The DJGPP port of Groff is mainly used to format man pages.  However, if
 >you are interested in typesetting and word processing, you will find in
 >Groff a wealth of useful information and algorithms.  In particular, this
 >is one of the few GNU packages (perhaps even the only one) which is
 >written in C++.
 >
 >Groff is the GNU implementation of the Unix-standard utilities troff and
 >nroff, and their companions pic, eqn, tbl, soelim, and others.  It also
 >includes many macro packages, including man, the package for formatting
 >man pages.
 >
 >The main user-level change in this release is the addition of the HTML
 >driver, which means you can now easily produce man pages in HTML format.
 >A bug in the Postscript driver, whereby Groff would print an error
 >message when invoked with the -Tps switch, is solved in this port.  See
 >the file NEWS in the distribution for the full list of changes.
 >
 >Ironically, the new version 1.16 of Groff was just released the other
 >day.  It is a large step forward, with many changes; retrofitting the
 >DJGPP-specific patches into it would delay the release of this port for
 >too much.  Since a new port is long overdue, I decided not to wait.
 >
 >Please direct any further discussions about this port to
 >comp.os.msdos.djgpp news group (or write to its e-mail gateway
 >djgpp AT delorie DOT com).