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This is awf, the Amazingly Workable Formatter -- a "nroff -man" or
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(subset) "nroff -ms" clone written entirely in (old) awk.
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It is slow and has many restrictions, but does a decent job on most
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manual pages and simple -ms documents, and isn't subject to AT&T's
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brain-damaged licensing that denies many System V users any text
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formatter at all. It is also a text formatter that is simple enough
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to be tinkered with, for people who want to experiment.
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Type "make r" to run a regression test, formatting the manual page
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(awf.1) and comparing it to a preformatted copy (awf.1.out). Type
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"make install" to install it. Pathnames may need changing.
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I don't know whether awf will run on 16-bit machines. Data requirements
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are modest, but I fear the programs are probably big enough to run awk
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out of space.
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I can't believe I really wrote this.
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Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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13 July 1990
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