DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion or DEC MSCP protocol specs

[Jarratt RMA]

I wouldn't mind running a file through runoff either, or building the
Pascal code that was mentioned. It would be a good excuse to do something
with one of my machines.

Regards

Rob

On 4 June 2015 at 20:53, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:

> Someone (possibly me) surely can process the files with dec runoff
> directly? Doesnt it support postscript output?
> On 4 Jun 2015 20:52, "Pete Turnbull" <pete at dunnington.plus.com> wrote:
>
> > On 04/06/2015 20:17, Paul Koning wrote:
> >
> >  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.
> >>
> >
> > runoff is pretty simple, so a converter shouldn't be hard to do.  You
> > might look for Unix roff, which begat nroff/troff.
> >
> > --
> > Pete
> >
> > Pete Turnbull
> >
>