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From: "Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)"  <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Date: Mon,  8 Feb 2010 16:00:51 -0700
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Subject: Re: [9fans] porting Heirloom troff to plan9
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> Has anyone considered / tried to port the Heiroom version of troff?
> Has anyone any comment about why doing so would be a bad idea?

No sense tossing the baby overboard. But it's worth examining the changes
the Heirloom folks have made to see what would make sense to backport. They've
certainly done some good work that deserves a look at least.

--lyndon