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Subject: Re: "picture" preprocessors (re: ideal)
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Date: Wed, 15-Apr-87 12:25:02 EST
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In article <21@blipyramid.BLI.COM> mao@blipyramid.BLI.COM (Mike Olson) writes:
>the manual, and presumably the code, are by christopher j. van wyk.
>i don't know who you need to contact to get source, or what the licensing
>restrictions are.  anyone else?
>
>note that although we've got source, i haven't compiled it, and don't know
>how well it works.
>					mike

It works well although if I remember correctly there are some (ideal
code) library routines missing (arc, I think).  We got ours (where I
worked before) before AT&T started marketing System V (or was it
III?).  This was back when they were also distributing ditroff which
at that time was an unsupported hack that had been done by Brian
Kernighan.  Once they started marketing System V and ``Documenter's
Workbench'' they stopped marketing ideal; my guess is that it's
because they didn't have anybody in the support group to support it;
Chris van Wyk works in Research.

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	rusty c. wright
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