Re: bug in pic

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From: Ken Greer
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1987 17:23

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in article <1884@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>, randall@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Randall Rathbun) says:
> 
> The following is a pic-ditroff program ...
> The system will report that pic is being reduced to fit an 8.5x11 inch size,
> even though I want an 11x8.5 inch size. Does anyone have any ideas what may be
> wrong?

There is a stupid hard-coded limit of 8 inches in pltroff.c --
and you can't override it.  If you have the source, look at the
routine openpl() in pltroff.c and it will be obvious what to do.

We've fixed it in our product Eroff.
-- 
Ken Greer
Elan Computer Group, Inc.
415-322-2450 
{ames,hplabs}!elan!kg

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Subject: Re: bug in pic
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