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From: brad@SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM (Brad Appleton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: user input using nroff/troff
Summary: How do I assign user input to a string?
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Date: 25 Jul 90 13:42:47 GMT
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Organization: Harris Computers Systems Division, Fort Lauderdale,FL
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Ive looked thoroughly in two sets of manuals for this and I still dont 
know how to do it (or if it can be done) ...

What I want to do is have (n|t)roff prompt me for input and then assign
the input to a string, all this without having roff print the input in
the document after it reads it.

Ive noticed that I can print a prompt using the .tm request and I can
read input with .rd request, but .rd immediately inserts the text into
my document. I want a macro named input so that:

.input name prompt

will print prompt to the user, read in input from the user, and assign
the result to the string "name" (using .ds I assume).

Any hints/suggestions would be appreciated!

advTHANXance
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