From: aclark@netcom.com (Al Clark) Subject: Re: Great Groff/Nroff subsitute - only 58k (AWF) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 19:30:27 GMT
In article <badger.718177283@phylo> badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger) writes:
>I have only a 15 MB Linux partition right now, so I have not
>installed groff (over 1MB!). Just today, however, I discovered
>AWF - The AMAZINGLY WORKABLE FORMATTER! AWF is an awk script
>that mimicks "nroff -man". Yes, I know nroff does other things
>than format man pages, but I think that's all most people do with it and
>AWF does it very well. Slowly, yes, but very well. I would not recommend
>using it to format pages "on the fly", but the way I use man, I keep
>compressed formatted man pages in /usr/man/cat1, etc, and AWF works
>well for this purpose. The best part is awf only takes up 58K, about 5%
>of what groff takes up.
>
>AWF is available (among other places) on wuarchive.wustl.edu
>in /mirrors/unix-c/textproc/awf.tar-z.
>
Another suggestion, which may not work as well, but works for me:
"fm -m". fm is available on tsx-11 in:
/pub/linux/sources/usr.bin/fm.tar.Z
/pub/linux/binaries/usr.bin/fm.tar.Z
It sometimes doesn't process comment lines well, giving occasional
garbage output, but even the early (May 13) binary I got is only 87k.
-- Al - aclark@netcom.com - My opinions are my own.