Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!yale!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Q: nroff character sizes Keywords: nroff term Message-ID: <1991Jun11.115142.8419@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 11 Jun 91 11:51:42 GMT References: <1889@vidiot.UUCP> <2133@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) Distribution: na Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City Lines: 13 plona@romulus.rutgers.edu (Lawrence Plona) writes: > nroff could have been written to do a lot more with line printers. You're joking, right? At the time nroff was written, you were lucky to find a line printer that could do anything fancier than print a subset of ascii (i.e. no lower case) and do linefeeds and formfeeds. Even if you expand the definition of "line printer" to mean "hard copy terminal" that above is still largely true. -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"