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Desperately Seeking ..... documentation for SROFF

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John Miller

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Oct 27, 1986, 2:35:27 PM10/27/86
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Thanks to a friend in New Jersey, I picked up a copy of a product
called "SROFF". It was sold by AT&T at one time. According to the
AT&T Product Center here at the Labs, it is no longer available.

I would like to locate documentation detailing what the "." commands
are. It is similar to "NROFF" and I have that documentation, but there
are clearly some differences worth knowing about.

If anyone knows of, or has, or can copy a SROFF manual (any SROFF version
would probably do - by any company) please let me know.
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R.SHARPLES

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Oct 28, 1986, 3:42:52 PM10/28/86
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If you hunt around on your UNIX mainframe or look in a UNIX manual, you can
find documentation for SROFF. I found it on HOMXB and simply printed it out
on the xerox. Try "find / -name sroff* -print", it may take a while.
This implies (correctly) that SROFF resides on AT&T UNIX
mainframes. It was in fact written for that purpose because a small memory
version of NROFF was required at some point. Much later, an ATT employee,
acting on his own, converted SROFF to run under MSDOS. As such, it is not (nor
ever was) a supported product (the MSDOS version) of AT&T and is not to be
distributed outside of AT&T.

Russ Sharples
AT&T BL
homxb!gritz

g...@sun.uucp

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Oct 28, 1986, 5:06:55 PM10/28/86
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> Thanks to a friend in New Jersey, I picked up a copy of a product
> called "SROFF". It was sold by AT&T at one time. According to the
> AT&T Product Center here at the Labs, it is no longer available.

Yes, it was sold by AT&T at one time, as part of Documenter's Workbench 1.0.
If it's no longer available, then they've either removed it from DWB in DWB
2.0 or they've dropped DWB....

> I would like to locate documentation detailing what the "." commands
> are.

Get the DWB 1.0 documentation; it's documented there.
--
Guy Harris
{ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy
g...@sun.com (or g...@sun.arpa)

Jim Webb

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Oct 28, 1986, 8:36:53 PM10/28/86
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> If you hunt around on your UNIX mainframe or look in a UNIX manual, you can
> find documentation for SROFF. I found it on HOMXB and simply printed it out
> on the xerox. Try "find / -name sroff* -print", it may take a while.

Snicker snicker, as the SROFF manuals are in:

/usr/docs/dwb/formref/ch005 -- Sroff Tutorial
/usr/docs/dwb/formref/ch006 -- Sroff Reference

on SVR2 vaxen at least...
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Jim Webb "Out of phase--get help" ...!ihnp4!hropus!jrw
"Use the Force, Read the Source"

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