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What does roff do? edit

Latest comment: 17 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Can someone describe what roff actually does? Calling it a "text formatting system" could mean any number of things. --Doradus 16:23, 24 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

roff on CTSS/Multics edit

Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Roff for Multics happened in two stages. First Morris rewrote RUNOFF and named it roff, apparently so it could cohabit CTSS with RUNOFF. I do not believe it was written in BCPL. Then McIlroy wrote a significantly extended replacement in BCPL for portability beyond CTSS/Multics.

According to Wikipedia's policy on primary sources, I, a participant in these events, have refrained from altering the article. The facts may have been set out by Branden Robinson in documentation in either the groff manual or the groff project github repository. Mdmi (talk) 00:50, 16 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

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