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Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote:

> My questions:
> 1. Is there a troff to postcript conversion utility present in a stock 
> 2.11 system (or even patch level 4xx system)?

Troff from that era was designed to drive the C/A/T phototypesetter.
There were tools that converted from C/A/T to postscript but they
were mostly commercial IIRC.

> 2. Is there a way to build postscript directly on the system?

Likely not.

> 3. Is there an alternative modern way to get to ps or pdf output from 
> the nroff/troff that 2.11 has?

I would recommend tar-ing up the doc and macros, moving them to Linux
or other modern system, and using groff -C to create postscript/pdf.
That really will be the fastest way.

Arnold