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nroff is a text-formatting program on Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It produces output suitable for simple fixed-width printers and terminal windows. It is an integral part of the Unix help system, being used to format man pages for display. Wikipedia →
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📖 Definitions
Verb To format (text) using the nroff program, which produces output suitable for simple fixed-width printers and terminal windows.
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📚 Books worth reading
Unix text processingDale Dougherty, Tim O'Reilly · 1987
Unix document processing and typesettingB. Srinivasan · 1993- 📕UNIX NROFF/TROFFRoddy, Kevin P. · 1987
Text processing and typesetting with UnixD. W. Barron · 1987- 📕UNIX nroff/troffRoddy, Kevin P. · 1987
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