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From: klm@gozer.UUCP (Kevin L. McBride)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Problems with tbl
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.174138.15821@gozer.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 91 17:41:38 GMT
References: <1991Mar7.201521.11987@vicstoy.UUCP>
Reply-To: klm@gozer.UUCP (Kevin L. McBride)
Organization: MSCG, Inc.
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In article <1991Mar7.201521.11987@vicstoy.UUCP> vickde@vicstoy.UUCP (Vick De Giorgio) writes:
>I have ISC 2.0.2. No matter what I do with the 'tbl' command, all I
>can get it to do is display a 'usage:' message. Is there something
>_really_ wrong with this command? Is there a fix? Thanks. =V=

Yes, it is really broken.  The same problem exists on 2.2 as well.
Call ISC and ask them for the patch that fixes it.

As an alternative, you can get groff.  It supports output devices that
people outside of AT&T really have.  The only downside to groff is
that you have to get a G++ compiler first. :-(

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