From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Joel Salomon Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [9fans] pm postprocessor and g++ Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 15:39:48 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: fce61c00-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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