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Date: | Sun, 16 Mar 1997 15:48:43 +0300 (IDT) |
From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
To: | "G.W. Owen" <mad14 AT cc DOT keele DOT ac DOT uk> |
cc: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
Subject: | Re: groff |
In-Reply-To: | <5gbkr4$45t@gerry.cc.keele.ac.uk> |
Message-ID: | <Pine.SUN.3.91.970316154647.12150P-100000@is> |
MIME-Version: | 1.0 |
On 14 Mar 1997, G.W. Owen wrote: > : OK, I'll bite: what the hell is groff? > : > gnu run-off, it turns an incredibly cryptic markup language into > something that terminals can print. It's no more cryptic that HTML, just shorter. And it's not for terminals at all, it was originally intended for driving a typesetter, to print the docs on paper.
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