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From: jon@wilbur.uucp (Jonathan Broome)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Text Processing Workbench question
Message-ID: <1989Oct17.185208.3759@wilbur.uucp>
Date: 17 Oct 89 18:52:08 GMT
References: <100@vidiot.UUCP> <113@dumbcat.UUCP> <112@vidiot.UUCP>
Reply-To: jon@wilbur.UUCP (Jonathan Broome)
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In article <112@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
: 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.
: 
: You've got to be kidding.  How can anyone ship a program that is that broken?

According to ISC's tech support folks in Santa Monica, this was one of the
first bug fixes they ever shipped -- it's the "X1" update.  Who told you
that it's broken and won't be fixed?  Call them again and ask about it.

 ---Jonathan Broome
 jon@wilbur.uucp