From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 12 00:28:31 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB624106566B for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:28:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com) Received: from mail.r-bonomi.com (mx-out.r-bonomi.com [204.87.227.120]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 520348FC16 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:28:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: (from bonomi@localhost) by mail.r-bonomi.com (8.14.4/rdb1) id q5C0TAEv023019; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:29:10 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:29:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Bonomi Message-Id: <201206120029.q5C0TAEv023019@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, pwnedomina@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <4C067C55-8320-4D12-A312-F8E2CC699B01@gmail.com> Cc: Subject: Re: text format X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:28:31 -0000 "i pwn" wrote: > > hi, sometime ago i asked a question about how to format a text, some > people told me to use groff, but i would like to know how was file http://ipwn.altervista.org/files/Stoll,%20Clifford%20-%20The%20Cuckoo%27s%20Egg.txt > fomatted. > thanks in advance. >From the output alone, one -cannot- tell for certain. That document could have been produced by any number of programs -- including, but not limited to 'electric pencil', 'pc-write', 'volkswriter', 'xywrite', 'wordstar', 'wordperfect', 'excel', and any form of 'runoff' or its descendants (including but limited to: 'rnf','troff', 'ditroff', 'nroff', 'groff' and others) or even a 'TeX' variant, such as 'LaTeX'. 'Considering the source', ditroff (or a varient) is likely. Probably using the 'me' macro set. There are output quirks that make it unlikely that the 'ms' macroes were used.)