Hi all, This is the `readme' file for my port of GNU groff 1.07 for the Atari ST. This file is included in the groff archives, but should also remain with the archives on all FTP sites to save people transferring megabytes for nothing. Groff is a typesetting program that can produce dvi, ascii, PostScript and X11 output. If you only need nroff to format manpages for ascii, you'll be better off with Bill Rosenkranz's nroff. If you want to do typesetting and you don't have nroff experience, maybe you'd better learn LaTeX. Groff has been ported for MiNT. It will not work with TOS. Also, you'll need quite a bit of memory for it to work. If you have 1 Mb or less, forget it. If you have 2 Mb, it may just work, if you don't have too many other programs and accessories around. If you have more memory, fine: you should not have any problems. Groff takes a *lot* of harddisk space (forget about using floppy disks). The binaries alone take 1.5 Mb, the man pages take 200 Kb, and the library files take 1.2 Mb. If you don't want to produce PostScript and X11 output, the library files will take 600 Kb. The library files (and preferably, the man pages too) should remain on a minix partition of your harddisk. You may experience problems if you put the library file on a TOS (MS_DOS) partition. Finally, some programs need `perl' to function. Don't worry, though, if you don't have perl; it is unlikely that you'll need these programs. The programs affected are `afmtodit', a program that analyses PostScript font decsription files, and `grog', a program that tries to guess what groff parameters you'll need an then calls groff for you. Grog will also work, although less ably, if you have a shell (/bin/sh). This port of groff comes in two zoo archives: - groffbin.zoo, which contains the programs - groffvar.zoo, which contains the library files, the man pages, etc. The second archive contains two tar files. Please use a real tar program to untar these files, for instance GNU tar 1.11.1. An old tar may damage filenames not fitting the MS-DOS 8+3 rule, of which there are many. (Otherwise, I'd have zoo'd the stuff. But then, most zoo programs around also damage filenames not fitting the 8+3 rule.) Installation info is contained in the file `install', which is included in both archives. That file will tell you what environment variables to set, what to put where, etc. It is safe to un-zoo both archives on any drive that has enough free space left, be it a TOS or a minix partition. Any questions, comments, bug-reports etc. should go to: Hildo Biersma // boender@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl schuller@dutiag.twi.tudelft.nl