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From: adam@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Adam H. Lewenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: newlinechar in a message
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Date: 9 Mar 91 23:36:13 GMT
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The following is a log file from an example trying to use
\newlinechar. The example is taken from "TeX for the Impatient" 
at the bottom of page 250. Why don't I get what the book says I should
get?


This is TeX, C Version 2.93 (preloaded format=plain 90.4.23)  9 MAR 1991 17:30
**&plain

*\newlinechar = `\^^J

*\message{This message appears^^Jon two lines.}
This message appears^^Jon two lines.
*\end
No pages of output.

          Thanks, Adam H. Lewenberg
-- 
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Dept. Of Mathematics
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