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From: lee@rochester.UUCP (Lee Moore)
Newsgroups: net.text
Subject: trouble with PIC
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Date: Thu, 26-Apr-84 23:09:58 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 26 23:09:58 1984
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From: Lee Moore  <lee>
I just discovered that our copy of "pic" assumes that internal
motions in troff are a maximum of 2^13 units.  While this was
true for the old troff, ti-troff allows distances to be up to 2^15
units.  The constant you want to change is near the front of 
pltroff.c.  I should mention that the reason that this was discovered
is because our output device has 2540 units to the inch (a so-called
metric pica).  Thus 2^15 (=32768) (barely) covers our device which
has a page length of 26987 units.

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