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nroff (short for "new Roff ") is a Unix Text-formatting Program ; it produces output suitable for simple fixed-width Printers . It was a descendant of the RUNOFF program from CTSS , the first computerized text-formatting program, and is a predecessor of the Unix Troff document processing system. There is also a Free Software version of ''nroff'' in the Groff package. nroff was written by Joe Ossanna . The Minix operating system, among others, uses a clone of nroff called Cawf by Vic Abell, based on awf, the Amazingly Workable Formatter designed in Awk by Henry Spencer . These are not full replacements for the nroff/troff suite of tools, but are sufficient for display and printing of basic documents and Manual Page s. In addition, a simplified version of nroff is available in Ratfor source code form as an example in the book ''Software Tools'' by Brian Kernighan and P.J. Plauger . SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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