Hi, I heard from Arnold Robbins, author of GNU's gawk amongst other things...
> Hi. Is anything happening with the Unix Text Processing book? > > Today, sort of for grins, I extracted the tarball and ran make. I got > a bunch of errors from eqn and it didn't finish all the way. > > Can someone look at it to see if it can be brought into the present? > > I'm using: > > $ groff --version > GNU groff version 1.21 > Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > GNU groff comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > You may redistribute copies of groff and its subprograms > under the terms of the GNU General Public License. > For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING. > > called subprograms: > > GNU troff (groff) version 1.21 > GNU grops (groff) version 1.21 > > Thanks, > > Arnold > > P.S. It's too bad it never got moved forward to talk about groff... > Thanks! ...and further... > > > Is anything happening with the Unix Text Processing book? > > > > That was a collaborative effort by some of us on the GNU groff > > mailing list, https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff, OK if I > > forward your email there? > > Sure! It'd be nice if it at least could be built using current groff > without errors. > > If "UTP - The Next Generation" ever gets off the ground, I think it'd > be great. I am overloaded both with gawk and real life, but perhaps I > could help review... He has a good point. Larry, have you tried to build it recently, or had any reports from those who have? Cheers, Ralph.
