"picture" preprocessors

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From: jgd
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1987 08:22

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[Stupid question of the month... for January 1987.   So I'm a little late.]

Reading through the -me reference manual for 4.3bsd, I see references to
"picture" preprocessors called "ideal" and "gremlin" -- "pic" I already know
about.  No other references to these beasties seem to appear in the Berkeley
documentation.

Since these are new to me, my stupid question is: What are they?  Are they
available?  If so, how?

(Well, actually that was three questions, but who's counting?)
-- 
John G Dobnick
Computing Services Division @ University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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