Editing "troff" Files In the Macintosh OS



Article Change History
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08/31/92 - REVIEWED
o For technical accuracy.
08/31/92 - UPDATED
o To include A/UX 3.0 Information.


Currently, you cannot do the following process:

1) Use "troff" on a UNIX 4.3 system to generate "troff" files.

2) Transfer these files to a Macintosh for editing with MacWrite or similar
application under the Macintosh OS (on a non-A/UX system).

3) Ship these files, once edited and modified, back to the UNIX system as
"troff" files.


The problem is in the way that "troff" and Macintosh word-processing
applications specify document format within a file.  They are quite
different and not understood by one another.

Although transferring a "troff" file, which has been converted to
PostScript, is possible, once the document is opened by a Macintosh
application that understands PostScript, its format cannot be changed.

If know of a way to do this, please forward the information to TECH.COMM
for evaluation and review.

In A/UX 3.0, you may now print postscript files from the Macintosh to
a postscript printer using the lasarwriter font utility.

Published Date: Feb 18, 2012