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troff /T'rof/ or /trof/ The grey eminence of Unix text processing; a formatting and phototypesetting program, written originally in PDP-11 assembly code and then in barely-structured early C by the late Joseph Ossanna, modelled after the earlier ROFF which was in turn modelled after Multics' {RUNOFF} by Jerome Saltzer (*that* name came from the expression "to run off a copy"). A companion program, nroff, formats output for terminals and line printers. In 1979, Brian Kernighan modified troff so that it could drive phototypesetters other than the Graphic Systems CAT. His paper describing that work ("A Typesetter-independent troff", AT&T CSTR #97) explains troff's durability. After discussing the program's "obvious deficiencies - a rebarbative input syntax, mysterious and undocumented properties in some areas, and a voracious appetite for computer resources" and noting the ugliness and extreme hairiness of the code and internals, Kernighan concludes: Non
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