:nroff:: /N'rof/ [UNIX, from "new roff" (see {{troff}})] n. A
companion program to the UNIX typesetter {{troff}}, accepting
identical input but preparing output for terminals and line
printers.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
companion program to the UNIX typesetter {{troff}}, accepting
identical input but preparing output for terminals and line
printers.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- nroff /N'rof/
n. [Unix, from "new roff" (see
troff)] A companion program to the Unix typesetter troff,
accepting identical input but preparing output for... - troff /T'rof/ or /trof/ n.
[Unix] The gray
eminence of Unix text processing;
a formatting and phototypesetting program, written... - line starve: [MIT] 1. vi. To feed paper through a printer the
wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this).
On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to... - sponge: [UNIX] n. A special case of a {filter} that reads its
entire input before writing any output;
the canonical example is a sort utility. Unlike... - grind: vt. 1. [MIT and Berkeley] To prettify hardcopy of code,
especially LISP code, by reindenting lines, printing... - filter: [orig. {{UNIX}}, now also in {{MS-DOS}}] n.
A program that processes an input data stream into... - plumbing: [UNIX] n. Term used for {shell} code, so called
because of the prevalence of `pipelines' that feed the output of
one program to the input of another.
Under UNIX, user utilities can often be implemented... - CrApTeX: /krap'tekh/ [University of York, England] n.
Term of abuse used to describe TeX and LaTeX when... - line starve
[MIT] 1. vi. To feed paper through a printer
the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this).
On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to...
