From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 16595 invoked from network); 12 Jan 2022 23:23:21 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 12 Jan 2022 23:23:21 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id C7CBE9D028; Thu, 13 Jan 2022 09:23:16 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B915C9CF7E; Thu, 13 Jan 2022 09:23:02 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 2E07F9CF7E; Thu, 13 Jan 2022 09:23:00 +1000 (AEST) Received: from lax.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [45.32.70.18]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FF469C78F for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2022 09:22:59 +1000 (AEST) Received: from eureka.lemis.com (121-200-11-253.79c80b.mel.nbn.aussiebb.net [121.200.11.253]) by lax.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E89F2810A; Wed, 12 Jan 2022 23:22:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eureka.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 93EB42635C0; Thu, 13 Jan 2022 10:22:58 +1100 (AEDT) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 10:22:58 +1100 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Larry McVoy Message-ID: <20220112232258.GK61872@eureka.lemis.com> References: <20211231234039.GU31637@mcvoy.com> <20220101005605.GL75481@eureka.lemis.com> <20220101031511.GB8135@mcvoy.com> <20220111015901.GE25103@eureka.lemis.com> <4409b91cd794867d@orthanc.ca> <20220111024218.GE3441@mcvoy.com> <202201110850.20B8oeMZ020212@freefriends.org> <20220111140005.GI3441@mcvoy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="J2pR2RtFp0tAjF3C" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20220111140005.GI3441@mcvoy.com> Organization: LEMIS, 29 Stones Road, Dereel, VIC, Australia Phone: +61-3-5309-0418 Mobile: +61-490-494-038. Use only as instructed. WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Subject: [TUHS] troff or groff? (was: Demise of TeX and groff (was: roff(7))) X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org, douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --J2pR2RtFp0tAjF3C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 11 January 2022 at 6:00:05 -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > It may be ancient history but troff was not a given on every > platform. nroff was there but troff was considered optional, you > had to pay for it and a lot of vendors didn't see the value. So the > docs and you weren't sure if you would have it at your next job, not > good. I've never used real troff, just groff. But from the man pages I understood that real troff only generated output for specific typesetters, while groff generated PostScript. Not so? Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA.php --J2pR2RtFp0tAjF3C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAmHfYtIACgkQIubykFB6QiMefACfSxMVJrcka9PTqxbk7ZebBiD8 4rgAn2K+zQSJzivESwESd7Wjf8J41euZ =4MPv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J2pR2RtFp0tAjF3C--