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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: help with sys file
Message-ID: <1991May24.174444.1865@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 May 1991 17:44:44 GMT
References: <1991May19.014130.25630@unixland.uucp> <1991May19.023101.29200@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991May23.221143.8781@unixland.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991May23.221143.8781@unixland.uucp> bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:
>Thanks for setting me straight.  The reason I was "trying to wing it"
>as you say, is that I don't have a good way to read the troff-format
>documentation...

What's wrong with printing it and reading it?  Contrary to popular belief,
the Formatter Police won't come drag you off and shoot you for trying to
read troff source without formatting it first.  Documents written using
simple markup conventions are not that difficult to read "in the raw".
About the only thing you have to know to read most of the C News docs, in
particular, is that \fX shifts to font X.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry