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From: Joel Salomon <joelcsalomon@excite.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] pm postprocessor and g++
Date: Fri,  4 Oct 2002 15:39:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ec836bd9.0210040730.38d2f10b@posting.google.com> (raw)

on 2002-02-07 16:29:05 PST
forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk wrote:
> Re: [9fans] OT: Paper on -mpm from 10th Edition
> ...
> there's a paper in a back issue of (USENIX) Computing Systems
> that describes the design and construction of the pm postprocessor
> and how the troff -mpm directives work with it.
> it was included with Plan 9 Second Edition.  it's a C++ program,
> which might be one reason it wasn't included in Third Edition.
> (Second Edition included a version of cfront sufficient to compile it.)

Now that gcc (including, presumably g++) has been ported to plan9, can
the pm postprocessor be brought back? Are there any other programs
that were removed for this reason?
Joel


             reply	other threads:[~2002-10-04 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-04 15:39 Joel Salomon [this message]
2002-10-04 15:55 ` andrey mirtchovski
2002-10-04 16:05 ` William Josephson
2002-10-04 16:06 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-10-04 16:44 ` William Josephson

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