-------- In message <CANCZdfoxE8HAAE+PVTVOuSYtTYg7rgXcUMMwrAk0Lp0tGu9qaA_at_mail.gmail.com>, Warner Losh writes: >Back in school, our SunOS 3, SunOS 4 and VAX running BSD 4.{2,3} we had to >run a special ditroff [...] ditroff = Device Independent Troff The original troff were hardwired to the C/A/T photo-typesetter which by the time of SVR bare existed in the market anymore. Ditroff took a configfile and emitted a documented output, which a device-dependent postprocessor would convert into something the actual hardware understood. I think I wrote about a dozen ditroff config+preprocessor combos during the late 1980ies. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Wed Sep 13 2017 - 04:32:34 UTC
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