A/UX nroff -ms doesn't work

[Phil Ronzone]

In article <64046 at sun.uucp> swilson at sun.UUCP (Scott Wilson) writes:
>>Again, the decision NOT to include -ms and -me was from maintaining the ...
>
>This sounds kind of scary to me.  You mean you will leave out things
>because they could potentially be difficult to maintain.  I can
>think of other programs that would be harder to maintain (for me
>anyway) like yacc.   That one would be tough to really understand.
>What else was left out of A/UX because of maintenance reasons?

No, the -ms macros were NOT a case of leaving something out -- they were
not "in" in the first place. A/UX is SVR2, with BSD extensions. So it was
a case of looking at the cost & desirability of ADDING the -ms macros. And
another poster pointed out that -ms can throw Adobe TransScript on the
LaserWriter off quite badly. So we look at the cost of making -ms work on
the ImageWriter II, the LaserWriters, the future-output-device and so on,
.vs. that manpower in beefing up another are of software, and ta-da, we
didn't bring IN -ms macros.
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