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From: rick@pcrat.uucp (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Text Processing Workbench question
Message-ID: <1989Oct17.085014.788@pcrat.uucp>
Date: 17 Oct 89 08:50:14 GMT
References: <100@vidiot.UUCP> <113@dumbcat.UUCP>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
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In article <113@dumbcat.UUCP> marc@dumbcat.UUCP (Marco S Hyman) writes:
>Before worying about trivial little things like output formats ask if the
>DWB works at all.  The very first thing I tried envolved tbl.  The output
>was:
>	usage: /usr/bin/tbl [-T X] [--] [file] ... [-]
>
>No matter what the command line that's all the output you'll get.  A call to
>ISC confirmed that tbl was broken.  And no, there is no fix.  And yes, it
>will be fixed the next release.  Maybe some time this year.
>
>According to the man page the supported output devices are aps (Autologic
>APS-5) and i10 (Imagen Imprint 10).

There is a fix for 2.0.x "tbl" if you bug ISC enough.  Worst case, you can
get the 1.0.6 "tbl", which didn't show the bug.  This "tbl" problem
must be one of ISC's biggest black eyes, and yet its still like
pulling teeth to get the fix.

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