Andrew Gabriel wrote:
Alan Coopersmith wrote:
On 11/ 7/14 08:58 AM, j...@m5.chicago.il.us wrote:
I need to obtain source to pic, because my Schillix system does not
have it. http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/cmd/
does not have a pic subdirectory. It has eqn and tbl, and of course
troff, but no pic. Where do I get source to pic? Thank you in
advance for any and all replies.
https://gnu.org/software/groff/
Solaris never included pic in it's nroff packages.
The Solaris nroff/troff come from AT&T Documentors Workbench version 2
(which also included pic and grap).
The groff equivalents (at least for nroff and troff) have never been
completely compatible.
If you want the AT&T Documentors Workbench source, the last version
was opensourced as part of Plan 9.
Some of the utilities (I forget which) had been converted to Plan 9's
stdio replacement, but converting back to use Unix stdio is not
difficult.
BTW, the omission of pic from Solaris was a long standing accidental
oversight - there was a Sun bugid to fix it, but it never got fixed.
The Sun documentation team used pic internally in the early days.
I looked around a bit further, and found that AT&T have opensourced
their last unix system V version:
http://www2.research.att.com/~astopen/cgi-bin/download.cgi?action=intro
and select dwb
This is version 3.3, which is significantly newer than the version
Solaris has.
In addition to pic, I note it also includes batch mode picasso, which is
an equivalent for pic, but directly produces postscript output.
(There was also a GUI mode picasso, but that's not included - I suspect
it might have only worked with Openlook.)
--
Andrew Gabriel
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