Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!iconsys!bryan
From: bryan@iconsys (Bryan Cardoza)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: user input using nroff/troff
Message-ID: <59@iconsys>
Date: 30 Jul 90 19:44:41 GMT
References: <494@travis.csd.harris.com> <8869@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Organization: SANYO/ICON, Orem, Utah
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In article <8869@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>.di xx
>.rd prompt
>.br
>.di

You may also note than in many implementations of [nt]roff, xx can also
be refered to as a string variable (which is what you asked about in
the first place).  In the segment shown above, the .br would still be
preserved even when using \*(xx.

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