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Article #5697Re: pic preprocessor for troff
From: Harold E. Bamford
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1989 21:32
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1989 21:32
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In article <1000@cmx.npac.syr.edu> crockett@top.cis.syr.edu (Peter Crockett) writes: >A professor came here with some troff source which uses a troff >preprocessor called pic. He had the code for pic sent here, but it >generates a troff directive D which is not understood by any troff on >campus. Anyone know anything about pic and/or the nature of this >mysterious directive? Try re-compiling pic with -DOLDTROFF. I believe that this will cause drawing to be done with the old-style of troff commands. The D directive is (I believe) new with ditroff.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!ucsd!rutgers!att!ihlpf!bamford From: bamford@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Harold E. Bamford) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: pic preprocessor for troff Message-ID: <7276@ihlpf.ATT.COM> Date: 16 Jan 89 21:32:41 GMT References: <1000@cmx.npac.syr.edu> Reply-To: bamford@ihlpf.UUCP (Harold E. Bamford) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 10