Re: [Groff] antiquity of troff

[Ralph Corderoy]

Larry Kollar wrote:
> Meg McRoberts wrote:
> > Does anyone know the history of mmx?  When I started, mmx was the
> > command we used to produce formatted ASCII text from source that
> > used the *roff macros.  I got the idea that it was an older tool
> > which was being linked to nroff at about that time...
> 
> I seem to remember reading about it, or something similar, in some
> older documentation. If I'm right, it serves much the same purpose as
> groff does (in relation to gtroff, grops, and so forth): it uses
> command-line options and certain defaults (including calling -mm) to
> build a pipeline.

There used to be mm(1), yes, section 1, on an old AT&T system I used to
use.  Part of the Documenter's Work Bench.  And that was just a wrapper
that used -mm, etc., as you say.

Cheers,
Ralph.