soelim and troff on remote machines

[John M Sellens]

A cheap hack would be to modify troff by adding a flag to indicate that
the source came from a different machine and modifying the way that .so
works.

- before sending the source to the remote machine, run it through soelim to
get as much as you can into one file.
- start troff (somehow) on the remote machine with a flag and arguments
indicating the machine, userid, and current directory of the submitter.
- When .so needs a file, rcp it to a unique tmp file on the troff machine.
To be smarter, keep a table of real name vs. tmp name so that you don't
have to rcp twice.

Of course, this is all easier said than done ...

John