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From: pipes@nssdcs.gsfc.nasa.gov (David Pipes )
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Subject: Re: a word-processor for UNIX
Keywords: editor troff vi
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Date: 24 Jul 89 20:53:56 GMT
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In article <1552@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> mcclaren@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu.UUCP (Tim McClarren) writes:
>
>[stuff elided]  I dunno...maybe I read too much popular
>lit./media, but I've not seen a whole lot of "This book written under vi, and 
>typeset with LaTeX/*roff on Bob & Jim's UNIX(c) box."  

Kernighan, Brian W. and Ritchie, Dennis M.; The C Programming Language,
     2nd edition; Prentice Hall, 1988.
     Pg. IV
     "This book was typeset (pic|tbl|eqn|troff -ms) in Times Roman and
     Courier by the authors, using an Autologic APS-5 phototypesetter
     and a DEC VAX 8550 running the 9th Edition of the UNIX(c) 
     operating system."

They didn't say whose machine it was, though.
In any case, no one would do a book meant to be widely read on something
as primitive as troff, would they? :-)

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