From: Jaap Akkerhuis <jaapna@xs4all.nl>
To: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jacobson, Doug W [E CPE]" <dougj@iastate.edu>,
"tuhs@tuhs.org" <tuhs@tuhs.org>,
groff@gnu.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Old troff files (1988-2007)
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2024 14:54:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CFA96AC0-8E84-44A7-AA26-59D694CF90CA@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241005222207.eerdrgtsttmx42kb@illithid>
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> On 6 Oct 2024, at 00:22, G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Unix nroff got frozen
> in amber in 1978 with respect to terminal support, and continues to live
> in a world where the termcap and terminfo libraries were never written.
Nroff did actually read in the output description from, if I remember
correctly, /usr/lib/termtab/xxx with the argument -Txxx. these where
stripped object files. I have made them for Diable daisy-wheel printers. Some
could create bold characters by overprinting and we once had one with two
print heads, the second head had an italics daisy-wheel mounted.
jaap
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-06 12:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-04 21:42 [TUHS] " Jacobson, Doug W [E CPE] via TUHS
2024-10-04 21:50 ` [TUHS] " Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2024-10-04 21:52 ` Jacobson, Doug W [E CPE] via TUHS
2024-10-04 22:10 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-10-04 23:01 ` Clem Cole
2024-10-04 23:16 ` Clem Cole
2024-10-05 0:14 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-10-05 4:09 ` Peter Yardley
2024-10-05 13:14 ` Clem Cole
2024-10-05 22:22 ` G. Branden Robinson
[not found] ` <CAC20D2NgmzDxhQu5P5hjrZ3ciSv=KayiUg8GwsFRpu0wPasprw@mail.gmail.com>
2024-10-06 5:53 ` [TUHS] Why groff ms doesn't completely support historical documents G. Branden Robinson
2024-10-06 12:54 ` Jaap Akkerhuis [this message]
2024-10-06 15:11 ` [TUHS] Re: Old troff files (1988-2007) G. Branden Robinson
2024-10-06 16:21 ` Ron Natalie
2024-10-09 21:02 ` Ron Natalie
2024-10-07 14:50 ` Leah Neukirchen
2024-10-08 6:45 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-10-08 10:33 ` Jacobson, Doug W [E CPE] via TUHS
2024-10-08 10:49 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-10-08 11:24 ` Jacobson, Doug W [E CPE] via TUHS
2024-10-16 21:40 ` Anton Shepelev
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