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> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Pinard?= <pinard AT iro DOT umontreal DOT ca>
> Date: 17 Nov 2000 14:09:14 -0500
> 
> You give no much clue, in your message, about what Grap is.
> Unless it is a preprocessor for Groff?  The text seems to suggest that it
> is more than that.  In any case, it is usual in announcement to explain,
> in one or two lines (maybe three :-), what the thing is.

True, it's customary to say a few words about the program's purpose
when announcing its port.  But it is easy to forget this when taking
care of the myriad of small details that burden anyone who makes a
ported package.  So let me fill in the blanks:

Grap is a language for typesetting graphs.  It is implemented as a
preprocessor for troff (via pic), so it can be used with Groff, e.g.,
like this:

   groff -G -p -Tps graph.g > graph.ps

This creates a PostScript file which you can send to a printer.

For more info, see http://www.kohtala.com/start/troff/cstr114.ps,
which is the original Grap tutorial and user manual by Jon Bentley and
Brian Kernighan, the authors of the AT&T implemenbtation of Grap
(different from the one that was ported to DJGPP).