[TUHS] Jon Bentley's DFORMAT preprocessor now available

arnold at skeeve.com arnold at skeeve.com
Sun Jun 21 23:08:08 AEST 2020


> > On Jun 21, 2020, at 7:35, Arnold Robbins <arnold at skeeve.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello All.
> > 
> > I have reconstituted Jon Bentley's DFORMAT preprocessor (troff and awk
> > source) and made it available on GitHub.  See
> > https://github.com/arnoldrobbins/dformat.

Jaap Akkerhuis <jaapna at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Hom much does it differ from the one in "Plan 9 from User Space", https://github.com/9fans/plan9port <https://github.com/9fans/plan9port>.
> BTW, there it is called "bwk's dformat"[1].
>
> 	jaap
>
> [1] https://github.com/9fans/plan9port/tree/master/src/cmd/dformat <https://github.com/9fans/plan9port/tree/master/src/cmd/dformat>

It's misattributed. It's Bentley's code.  But nice of them to include it.

I opened a github issue.

Arnold


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