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From: freek@mel.fwi.uva.nl (Freek Wiedijk)
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Subject: Re: WYSIWYG flamage (was Re: what i
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Date: 20 Aug 89 19:42:40 GMT
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In article <152@prcrs.UUCP> plunkett@prcrs.UUCP (Scott Plunkett) writes:
>When the following can be done as easily with a WYSIWYG then troff
>may be retired:
>
>	cat <<! | tbl | troff

[omitted]

>	`ls -l | awk '{print $9 "\t" $5 "\t" $3}'`
>	.TE
>	!

Of course, this is much easier in a WYSIWYG (operating) system! Simply
say:

	Print Directory...

from the "File" menu in the Finder.  Would you be so kind to retire
troff now for me?  :-) :-) :-)

By the way: in order to make this work, I had to say
'{print $8 "\t" $4 "\t" $3}'  instead of  '{print $9 "\t" $5 "\t" $3}'.
Was this my fault, your fault or troff's fault? :-) :-) :-)

Greetings,
Freek "the Pistol Major" Wiedijk                  Path: uunet!fwi.uva.nl!freek
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