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Re: Two trivial questions


From: Mike Bianchi
Subject: Re: Two trivial questions
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 11:54:25 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 08:39:51PM -0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> > I say "g-roff" (to match t-roff and n-roff).

The missing piece of information was before there was  ?roff  there was  roff .

roff         Run OFF
             ((Unix version of the runoff text-formatting program from Multics))
                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roff_(software)

nroff        New ROFF
troff        Typesetter ROFF
groff        Gnu ROFF
neatroff     NEAT ROFF  or  (NEArly TROFF ?)

So if you came from a time and place where more than one of these were in
common use, the pronunciation differentiates the particular implementation.

But if groff was the only command you were exposed to ... growl like a dog.

-- 
 Mike Bianchi
 MBianchi@Foveal.com



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