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Aucbvax.2552 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!HEP@CIT-20 Thu Aug 6 21:49:54 1981 Bell device-independent troff From: HEP at CIT-20

>From cithep!norman Thu Aug 6 20:42 PDT 1981 It finally occurred to me to ask Rob about the troff rumour I heard at usenix. Here's his reply:

{ >From ??? Thu Aug 6 16:29 PDT 1981 >From ikeya!rob Thu Aug 6 09:31 EDT 1981 remote from research a device-independent troff is the one in use here, and it is being licensed (which means it will be available, but i don't know the time scale). it's the same troff externally, but is much different inside, and takes a second program - a driver - to convert the intermediate format to text on a page.

}

The time scale I heard was around the end of summer. --------

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