Re: [Groff] Re: Old *roff utilities - found a diffmk, any checkmm?

[Jon Snader]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:44:55AM +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> 
> Hi Larry,
> 
> > Part of my problem here is that I'm completely ignorant about what
> > utilities DWB came with. Googling didn't produce a complete list; I
> > found partial lists of the major components & those are already either
> > part of groff (mm, pic, etc) or are available from gnu.org or other
> > sources (awk, sed, style & diction). I'd have never learned about
> > diffmk or checkmm without reading (or working on, as the case may be)
> > UTP.
> > 
> > But that might answer one of my questions... where DWB ended up.  If
> > SCO has it... well, at least *someone* does. Given SCO's recent desire
> > to license their UNIX software, and the wild rumors muddying the
> > issue, I'd like to have something on paper if they do release the code
> > though.
> 
> I'm not sure DWB went with the other `OS' assets that were part of
> AT&T's Unix System Labatories.
> 
>     http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=DqA8Hy.Jyn%40research.att.com
> 
> I agree it would be interesting to find out more about picasso, etc.
> 

It's still available from Lucent as part of the Object Oriented Toolkit,
<http://development.lucentssg.com/displayProduct.cfm?prodid=60>, but it's
a little pricey, especially if you aren't interested in cfront and related
utilities.

Jon Snader