Re: [TUHS] Documenter's Workbench versions

[Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com>]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 3:30 PM Andrew Diller <dillera@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This image on IA installs fine on IRIX 5.x and has a number of binaries and fonts that I assume are used for making nice documentation.
>
> https://i.imgur.com/tpCPniW.jpg
> https://i.imgur.com/rWSmMsg.jpg
>
>
> lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys           12 Mar  9 14:08 mvt -> /usr/bin/mmt
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys        31760 Mar  9 14:08 macref
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys        14304 Mar  9 14:08 hyphen
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys       111768 Mar  9 14:08 grap
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys        18592 Mar  9 14:08 makedev
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys         2993 Mar  9 14:08 mm
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys         1736 Mar  9 14:08 mmt
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys        78808 Mar  9 14:08 eqn
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys        68456 Mar  9 14:08 checkmm
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys        62328 Mar  9 14:08 daps
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys       117512 Mar  9 14:08 checkmm1
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys        62424 Mar  9 14:08 di10
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys          961 Mar  9 14:08 diffmk
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys        78872 Mar  9 14:08 tbl
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys         1508 Mar  9 14:08 subj
> -r-xr-xr-x    1 root     sys         2313 Mar  9 14:08 vgrind
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys        41768 Mar  9 14:08 tc
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys       152976 Mar  9 14:08 troff
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys       146088 Mar  9 14:08 pic
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys         4743 Mar  9 14:08 ndx
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys        61560 Mar  9 14:08 neqn
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys       148432 Mar  9 14:08 nroff
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys        23048 Mar  9 14:08 ptx
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys        14304 Mar  9 14:08 soelim
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>
> I'm not familiar enough with dwb to know what to start with....

It's basically a marketing name for troff and some macro packages.
You could try feeding some of these
https://github.com/n-t-roff/DWB3.3/tree/master/doc through it to see
how it works, although depending on what 4.x really is it may be a bit
of a learning experience.

Aside from the man pages and official documentation, a lot of popular
books were and still are written with it
https://www.troff.org/pubs.html

> -andy
>
>
> > On Mar 7, 2022, at 3:57 PM, Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 6, 2022 at 6:02 PM Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Can anyone firm this lineage up a bit; and is 4.x an SGI thing or what
> >> (I extracted the image, the relnotes inside might as well not exist).
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Kevin
>