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Re: Awf: Henry's Amazingly Workable Formatter (was Re: Groff)

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 1990 17:07
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In article <90Nov14.184836est.19909@me.utoronto.ca> eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick) writes:
>... Problems with the lines:
>	''
>which mostly contained comments and other things...

Sounds like Larry needs to go back to his manual and find out what the
nroff/troff comment convention is.  (Hint:  it's not ''.)
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"I don't *want* to be normal!"         | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Awf: Henry's Amazingly Workable Formatter (was Re: Groff)
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.170711.6778@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <28619@shamash.cdc.com> <10354@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <1990Nov14.094039.11153@robobar.co.uk> <90Nov14.184836est.19909@me.utoronto.ca>
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