Nroff

3 definitions found

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  NROFF
       New Run-OFF (Unix)
       
       

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:



  nroff /N'rof/ n. [Unix, from "new roff" (see {{troff}})] A companion
     program to the Unix typesetter {{troff}}, accepting identical input but
     preparing output for terminals and line printers.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  nroff
       
          /N'rof/ [Unix, from "new {roff}"] A text formatting language
          and interpreter, companion to the Unix typesetter {troff},
          accepting identical input but preparing output for terminals
          and line printers.  See also {groff}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]