Ultrix Support
rusty at GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU
rusty at GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU
Wed Jun 21 06:50:58 AEST 1989
Apparently /usr/bin/troff has been modified to use ascii character
width tables.
Problem 1: I can't find where this has been documented.
Problem 2: If one tries to use the Adobe Transcript software (this is
Unix software so you can use a PostScript printer) it assumes that
/usr/bin/troff is "normal" (i.e., unmodified) and expects its font
width tables to be binary. In other words, this all works on a Sun
workstation, works on systems with a standard /usr/bin/troff, and (I
assume) used to work on Ultrix.
Problem 3: This is the worst. I called DEC's 800 support number and
they don't know anything about it, and also said that they can't do
anything about it because /usr/bin/troff is an "unsupported product".
I posted a message to the ultrix usenet newsgroup and someone within
DEC acknowledged that the Ultrix people have modified /usr/bin/troff
to use ascii width tables.
I don't understand how they can have modified it, and not documented
their changes, and then claim that they don't support it. What a
crock!
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