"Rick Weiser" wrote:
That is not my e-mail. You must have gotten that from a 5 year old
google reference, but thanks for trying anyway. My e-mail address is
in almost every post I make to this forum:
TG@ remove!!this!!middle!!part!!hereNebula-RnD .com

For those who are proposing plain runoff exports and Accuterm, the
plain text output will be very different than the source. All of the
formatting will be lost and the text will be highly unmaintainable.
(Much like CSV solutions for Excel.) For old documentation that will
never be maintained, a one-time print to a text file may be OK. But
for a company that needs to update the docs for any reason, I highly
suggest a conversion to Word or other standard format with
ConnectingFlight. The good news is that someone can try all of the
solutions proposed here, and if they don't work in the long run the
runoff docs can still be run through a real conversion.

Another point about document conversion. By encouraging someone to
export their formatted documentation into a plain text file as the
final solution, you folks are putting another nail in the MV coffin.
When their management sees the docs it will only confirm that their
software is old, unmaintainable, and needs to be replaced with
something more modern. The OP is already talking about it like this,
and it's apparent that they've lost their D3 VAR or other
representative to keep the system up to date. You're proposing
answers to immediate problems but not thinking about the bigger
picture. I know this will only get me more flames, I'm used to it. I
just want you to see yet another example of why we are where we are.

T

EPPICK77 wrote:
It's also available for most versions of Unix, in rather more advanced
forms. Google for "nroff" and "troff".

It was on Reality from the early days. Not sure about U2, but I don't
think so.

Luke