Re: [Groff] antiquity of troff

[Larry Kollar]

Meg McRoberts wrote:

> Does anyone know the history of mmx?  When I started, mmx was the
> command we used to produce formatted ASCII text from source that
> used the *roff macros.  I got the idea that it was an older tool which
> was being linked to nroff at about that time...

I seem to remember reading about it, or something similar, in some  
older documentation. If I'm right, it serves much the same purpose as  
groff does (in relation to gtroff, grops, and so forth): it uses  
command-line options and certain defaults (including calling -mm) to  
build a pipeline.

        Larry