(N)TROFF for ESIX - I need it!
Scott E. Garfinkle
dacseg at uts.amdahl.com
Wed Feb 21 04:52:36 AEST 1990
>From article <111 at minya.UUCP>, by jc at minya.UUCP (John Chambers):
> Which reminds me: I've seen ditroff on some Unix systems, and not on
> others. Does anyone know where it originates? It seems like a good
> program, when it's present.
Ditroff is part of the AT&T Documenter's Workbench package, and is often
licensed separately from the base OS. I am not familiar with AT&T's
licensing arrangements with its OEMS.
> One of the things that sorta surprised me was that this Esix system
> came without nroff/troff. Maybe I'm showing my naivete, but its the
> first (of quite a large number) of Unix systems that lacked them....
None of the 386 Unix products I know of come with nroff/troff in their
OS package. Both SCO and ISC license them separately (at least, I think
ISC licenses DWB). ESIX sales people recommend Elan, I think.
> Next, I suppose I'll see a Unix system without cc or make or sh or...
SCO sells Unix without cc if you don't buy their development system. I
think ISC does the same. At least Esix comes with this stuff.
-Scott E. Garfinkle
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