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From: rstevens@noao.edu (Rich Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Pic / Eqn Question
Message-ID: <1991May23.163624.18472@noao.edu>
Date: 23 May 91 16:36:24 GMT
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>  Could anyone give me some information regarding Pic?  That is, where can
>it be found?  Where can I get documentation on it, etc.?

The best documentation I've seen to date on pic is the 25-page writeup
by Brian Kernighan in the Volume II of the Version 10 manuals (published
by Saunders).  This corresponds to the latest AT&T DWB 3.1 pic, and
documents some features that you wont find in earlier DWB 2.x versions..

>Or, if there are any public domain utilities which have similar
>capabilities as Pic, where can these be found?

The groff package (GNU troff) has a complete pic implementation that
corresponds to the latest DWB version of pic.

	Rich Stevens  (rstevens@noao.edu)