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From: daw@houxs.UUCP (D.WOLVERTON)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Need help with the .! troff request
Message-ID: <502@houxs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 17:06:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: houxs.502
Posted: Wed Aug 19 17:06:39 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 12:15:04 EDT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
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Summary: Sorry, please ignore this request for assistance


(In best Emily Litella voice) Never miiiind!

The nroff/troff update docs which I had ordered 2 months ago just arrived 
today (one day late for the purposes of this posting) ((actually, they 
arrived for my officemate; mine haven't arrived yet)).

They clearly state (in an Addendum dated November 1986) that the .!
request has been "deleted". :-(

They go on to suggest the use of the .sy request (which discards its output)
to pipe the data into a temp file, then use .so to insert the file into the 
document.

And so it goes.


Dave Wolverton
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