troff2lj problems

[Paul Vixie]

In article <5334 at rpp386.UUCP> jfh at rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes:
# plexus, in their transfinite wisdom, renamed the old troff to `otroff'
# and the new device independent troff has become `troff'.  a quick
# check of programs SCO includes with their text processing system
# reveals that only one troff is included.  and if murphy has his way,
# it is the WRONG one ;-)

It's fairly common in recent releases of DWB for the old troff to be shipped
as "otroff".  I wish DWB as shipped with ISC 386/ix had this feature.  As it
is, my 386/ix system can't run troff to the HP LJ2 because even though I have
troff2lj, I don't have otroff.  So I use nroff.  Bletcherous.

Elan's product would no doubt fix this, but it's a _product_ which means it
costs _money_ which means I'd rather have something like troff2lj that works
with the so-called "device independent" troff.  Or if DWB included a post-
processor to the C/A/T (which 386/ix's, at least, does not).

Anybody got a free solution to this?  I've asked ISC for otroff, but they
ignored me.  Sigh.

(Speaking as an individual, DEC doesn't have any 386 systems that I know of.)

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