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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: pic
Message-ID: <11256@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 11 Oct 89 06:47:54 GMT
References: <46215f96.81da@digital.sps.mot.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <46215f96.81da@digital.sps.mot.com> chen@digital (Jinfu Chen) writes:
>Every once a while I find some *roff documents include simple pictures
>to be processed via `pic'. Where's this `pic' program comes from?

"pic" is part of the Documenter's WorkBench package licensed by AT&T.
Sometimes DWB is bundled with a vendor's implementation of UNIX,
sometimes it is available from the vendor as an extra-cost option,
and sometimes you have to turn to a third party (e.g. Elan, SoftQuad)
to obtain it.  I know of no public-domain implementation of "pic".