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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Unfortunately, it's not a variant of
roff, it's TeX for CP/M by Digital Research. As I said I have the
manual for DR's TEX, here's a quote from the title page:<br>
"The "TEX User's Guide" was prepared using the<br>
TEX Text Formatter."<br>
and trademark paragraph:<br>
"The names CP/M, SID, MAC, TEX, and Digital<br>
Research are trademarks of Digital Research."<br>
It's just one of the infinite varieties of commercialized TeX put
out in the late 70's (1978 in this case) by various and sundry
vendors.<br>
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On 5/15/2015 7:35 AM, Donald Arseneau wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Thu, May 14, 2015 10:41 am, Peter Cumminsky wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I need to convert a bunch of Digital Research manuals (CP/M days) to
pdf. I have the .tex files and have W32TeX installed in 64-bit Windows
7. pdfTeX works fine on most most TeX documents but DR's use dot
commands instead of backslashes.
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<pre wrap="">That is called "runoff", or "Digital standard runoff"; I don't think
TeX is involved at all. DEC also had "vax document" formatter using
input files in "sdml" which was an early sgml. That formatter *did*
use TeX as a formatting engine, but the TeX source it produced was
not meant for human consumption or editing.
Use google to search for ways to convert DSR/Runoff. Maybe it is a small
step to convert to nroff.
Donald Arseneau, TRIUMF CMMS, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:asnd@triumf.ca">asnd@triumf.ca</a>
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