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Article #227trouble with PIC
From: Lee Moore
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 1984 04:09
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 1984 04:09
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From: Lee Moore <lee> I just discovered that our copy of "pic" assumes that internal motions in troff are a maximum of 2^13 units. While this was true for the old troff, ti-troff allows distances to be up to 2^15 units. The constant you want to change is near the front of pltroff.c. I should mention that the reason that this was discovered is because our output device has 2540 units to the inch (a so-called metric pica). Thus 2^15 (=32768) (barely) covers our device which has a page length of 26987 units. -- = lee@rochester rochester!lee =
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rochester.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!rochester!lee From: lee@rochester.UUCP (Lee Moore) Newsgroups: net.text Subject: trouble with PIC Message-ID: <6603@rochester.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Apr-84 23:09:58 EST Article-I.D.: rocheste.6603 Posted: Thu Apr 26 23:09:58 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Apr-84 08:25:50 EST Sender: lee@rochester.UUCP Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept. Lines: 13