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From: jaap@mcvax.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis)
Newsgroups: net.text
Subject: Re: Help needed with ditroff/mm macros
Message-ID: <462@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Feb-85 20:49:00 EST
Article-I.D.: mcvax.462
Posted: Fri Feb 15 20:49:00 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 17-Feb-85 15:27:53 EST
References: <4790@ukc.UUCP> <5001@utzoo.UUCP> <906@ru-cs44.UUCP>
Reply-To: jaap@mcvax.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis)
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <906@ru-cs44.UUCP> adrian@ru-cs44.UUCP (Adrian Pell) writes:
	>>Page numbers with lots of leading zeros are, as I recall, obtainable
	>>by giving a nonsense code when specifying the format in which a number
	>>register should be printed.
	>
	>The problem is that early versions of nroff (pre System III), which
	>includes V7 and ditroff, don't have a \g escape to return the current
	>format of a number register, suitable for later feeding to a .af request.
	>
	>I had this problem on our V7 system with nroff, and it was solved
	>by fitting the code for this escape out of the SysIII source.  Now
	>if you haven't got the SysIII source ...
	>-- 
H'mm, just remove the (2?) lines with .af \gx ..
(or something similar) from the mm macros. BTW, how can you have the
mm package without SysIII (or PWB) source? Dropped of the back of a truck??