Newsgroups: comp.text
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsl!npn
From: npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson)
Subject: SVR 4.0 troff is ancient BSD version
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 90 15:48:21 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Nov29.154821.1709@cbnewsl.att.com>
Keywords: troff
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A poster asked the origins of the troff in System V
release 4. It's an ancient Berkeley version; in fact,
I think Bill Joy ported it himself. It's in the BSD
compatibility directory. Works great if you have an
APS phototypesetter.
