4 Jun
2015
4 Jun
'15
12:17 p.m.
On Jun 4, 2015, at 1:47 PM, Tom Gardner <t.gardner
at computer.org> wrote:
Hi
I have multiple DEC Runoff (.rno extension) files for the manual on DEC's
MSCP protocol. I'd like to convert them to a modern format. The manual is
dated circa 1992 incorporating ecos thru MSCP23-4 and is revision 2.4 (or
later) of MSCP. What appears to be an early version (Apr 1982 rev 1.2) is
at
http://www.textfiles.com/bitsavers/pdf/dec/disc/UDA50/AA-L619A-TK_MSCP_basFn
s_82.pdf
I've searched for a convertor without much luck, there is a VMS Pascal
converter at https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/rnototex which
converts to LaTex which can then be converted to pdf, but I don't have any
DEC equipment.
There are Pascal compilers for Unix, for example gpc. It has its limitations but it may
be sufficient.
...
DECs Runoff is a markup language that sort of looks like an early HTML, so I
suppose I could try a grep conversion to HTML, or just strip out the markup.
A much closer relative is Unix ?troff? format, which apparently goes back to something in
Multics called ?runoff?. Fancy that. So you might dig up a troff manual (here?s one:
http://www.troff.org/54.pdf) and convert to that. It looks like that wouldn?t be hard.
paul