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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: YELP about obtaining nroff (longish)
Keywords: nroff groff psroff man Coherent
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Date: 8 Feb 91 19:03:27 GMT
References: <1991Feb07.195547.22813@crom2.uucp>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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In article <1991Feb07.195547.22813@crom2.uucp> jim@crom2.uucp (James P. H. Fuller) writes:
: In summary, I've really run into a blank wall on this.  I'm trying to in-
: stall a smart mailer and I want to read Larry Wall's paper on paths and
: pathalias, and the paper is widely available but it's so thoroughly nroff'ed
: (among other things) that it's actually broken up into a bunch of ittybitty
: pieces with a makefile!  As far as I'm concerned it might as well be written
: in Babylonian.  

I don't know if this counts as the handwriting on the blank wall you ran
into, but I don't recall having had anything to do with a paper on paths
and pathalias.

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov