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From: npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: eqn and tbl (old problem)
Summary: Software archeology
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.155717.8505@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 20 Feb 91 15:57:17 GMT
References: <16767@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <1991Feb18.203318.2509@cbnewsl.att.com> <1991Feb19.065612.1083@ico.isc.com>
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Dick Dunn says:
>No intent to flame Peter, but since most of us don't have (and can't get:-(
>DWB 3.x, a little software archaeology may be helpful.  The equation-
>within-table example persists in BSD manuals to this day, although it may
>have been dropped from some of the AT&T manuals in the interregnum.

When I preface any of my replies by "In DBW 3.1..." all I intend
to say is "It works in DWB 3.1 and I'm too lazy to see if it
also works in DWB 2.0, groff, SunOS troff, etc." I'll leave it
to others to report whether older versions support a particular
feature. I work in Bell Laboratories, not the Smithsonian, so
I'm more interested in current and future developments than past.

In this particular case, the original poster claimed to have searched
all appropriate documentation with no success, and I took him at his
word. As Dick indicates, *all* tbl documentation, no matter how old,
seems to include the instruction to pipe tbl into eqn.