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From: Scott Plunkett
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1989 18:46
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1989 18:46
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> ...Face it, troff is an elephant, which deserves
> respect, a gold watch, and retirement very soon.
When the following can be done as easily with a WYSIWYG then troff
may be retired:
cat <<! | tbl | troff
." version %I%
.
.TS
center, box;
c s s
c c c
l r l.
`pwd`
_
Name Size Owner
_
`ls -l | awk '{print $9 "\t" $5 "\t" $3}'`
.TE
!
Scott Plunkett PRC Realty Systems, Inc. ..uunet!prcrs!plunkett
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!prcrs!plunkett From: plunkett@prcrs.UUCP (Scott Plunkett) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: WYSIWYG flamage (was Re: what i Message-ID: <152@prcrs.UUCP> Date: 14 Aug 89 18:46:00 GMT References: <210927@<1989Jul28> <77900017@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <15992@vail.ICO.ISC.COM> Organization: PRC Realty Systems, McLean, VA Lines: 23