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1.1     ! root        1: To make troff (actually a.out):
        !             2: 
        !             3:        make
        !             4: 
        !             5: You must have an ANSI C compiler for this.  In a pinch, the awk program
        !             6: unansi may help you move backwards in time.
        !             7: 
        !             8: You will also need a driver for your favorite output device.
        !             9: d202.c provides a model, although it is specialized to a machine no
        !            10: one has.  There are also a variety of postscript drivers that are the
        !            11: best thing to use if you have a postscript device.  the default output
        !            12: device is "post".
        !            13: 
        !            14: You will also have to make a DESC file for your typesetter and some
        !            15: font description files; see dev202 for examples.  These describe the
        !            16: named characters, widths, kerning information, and output codes.
        !            17: 
        !            18: Nroff is the same program as troff, so you should
        !            19: 
        !            20:        cp a.out /usr/bin/troff
        !            21:        ln /usr/bin/troff /usr/bin/nroff
        !            22: 
        !            23: or the equivalent.
        !            24: 
        !            25: You will also need terminal description files for your terminals; see
        !            26: tab.37, tab.450 and tab.lp for examples.
        !            27: 
        !            28: DESC and font description files are normally stored in /usr/lib/font;
        !            29: macro packages are in /usr/lib/tmac; nroff tables are in
        !            30: /usr/lib/term.  You can edit tdef.h to change these assumptions.
        !            31: 
        !            32: There have been a few features since the last version, and a number of
        !            33: significant internal changes.  Not all are improvements, of course.
        !            34: Most of the more recent changes, including bug fixes, are in FIXES,
        !            35: which you should read also.

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