On 13/02/19 21:00, Doug McIlroy wrote: > I run groff on windows a lot, but via cygwin, which emulates > Unix. I am inclined to think that if you like the groff toolset, > you are likely to want other Unix capability, too, and thus > gravitate towards facilities like cygwin. > > I take it that Keith uses groff on bare Windows without a > Unix veneer.
I used to; I no longer use Windows for anything much. In the days when I did use it, I always found cygwin to deliver a rather unsatisfactory experience. > If many people work in that mode, we should not abandon them. I fully agree. Native Windows support is already built in; it is based on stable APIs, and is robust. It would be folly, to just rip it out. -- Keith
