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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
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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