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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@qui...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] troff .XP
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:41 +0000

Forsyth ported refer(1) to plan9, which is what I use,
I have copied his email below.

-Steve

> i've the variant in use in sources/contrib/forsyth/refer.tgz. see INSTALL.
> it could do with much more work (on the strange
> source file partitioning, and more seriously on all those fixed-size char 
> arrays),
> but at least a few of the ancient problems have been corrected
> (limits on list memory size, and a buggy implementation of aho-corasick).  i've 
> used it
> for years without too much fuss.  one difference from earlier ones
> is that you're required to use refer/pubindex.