'mm' for Ultrix?

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2 total messages Started by peters Mon, 22 Sep 1986 01:50

#1105

Author: peters
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1986 01:50

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We recently switched from a Sys V based system to Ultrix 1.2.  Some of our
users (myself included) are having problems with 'ms' and 'me'.  We have
grown quite accustomed to 'mm'.  I took a quick stab (VERY quick) at porting
'mm' to Ultrix, but several things (like page numbers and the table of contents)
don't work correctly.  Before I invest too much time in this, I'd like to 
know if anyone has already done this.

Please E-mail responses.  I don't get this board on my system.

Thanks.

Patrick W. Peters	
Texas Instruments

UUCP: 	{uiucdcs!convex!smu, {ut-sally!im4u, sun!texsun}!ti-csl}!tifsie!pat
Voice:	(214) 995-2786

Re: 'mm' for Ultrix?

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Author: Lyle Plitt
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1986 20:28

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In article <17100001@ti-csl> peters@ti-csl writes:
>
>We recently switched from a Sys V based system to Ultrix 1.2.  Some of our
>users (myself included) are having problems with 'ms' and 'me'.  We have
>grown quite accustomed to 'mm'.  I took a quick stab (VERY quick) at porting
>'mm' to Ultrix, but several things (like page numbers and the table of contents)
>don't work correctly.  Before I invest too much time in this, I'd like to 
>know if anyone has already done this.
>
>Please E-mail responses.  I don't get this board on my system.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Patrick W. Peters	
>Texas Instruments
>
>UUCP: 	{uiucdcs!convex!smu, {ut-sally!im4u, sun!texsun}!ti-csl}!tifsie!pat
>Voice:	(214) 995-2786

I think I know what is causing your problem.

The main symptom is a zillion leading zeros, or other characters,
in front of the page numbers. The problem is caused by bad parameters to
several *.af* commands (assigns format to a register). 

The two registers getting screwed up are "P" (the page number register) and
";P". To work around the problem you need to make changes in two places ---
in the macros ".TP" and ")b". Replace the lines ".af ;P \\gP" with
".af ;P 1", and ".af P \\g(;P" with ".af P 1". This will force the page
number register to use the arabic numbering sequence. 

                          Lyle Plitt
                          Harris Computer Systems Div.
                          Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
                          {allegra, ucf-cs}!novavax!hrshcx!lyle

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