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Comments: In-reply-to "Greg A. Woods" <woods@robohack.ca>
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Subject: Re: [TUHS] troff was not so widely usable (was: The UNIX Command
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Greg A. Woods writes:
>
> Ditroff (or sqtroff) was also incredibly rare to non-existent for 99% of
> the Unix sites I worked at and visited; even some time after it became
> available.  Even sites running native AT&T Unix, e.g. on 3B2s, and thus
> could easily obtain it, often didn't want the added expense of
> installing it.

Maybe for you; I had it everywhere that I worked.