[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 8/22/2012 10:43 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
> John Wallace wrote:
>
>> It also occurs to me that in documenting this occurence, CDA (compound
>> document architecture) and its transparent integration with text-only
>> apps would have been quite handy.
>
>
> While CDA support is still present and RMS still able to exttact text
> from CDA documents, Palmer/Digital stopped developping the converters
> and sold them to another company who did one or two versions and we
> haven't heard from since.
>
> I believe the original converters are now included on the freeware CD.
>

Only a masochist would willingly use roff/runoff if there were anything 
else available!  It was a nightmare out of the 1960's and maybe the 70's.

I used the RUNOFF or ROFF word processor at Princeton University in the
early 1970s.  Input was 80 column punched cards.  It was used to 
maintain some fairly large documents.  It was clumsy but got the job done.