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.
