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From: fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: nroff bug?
Keywords: nroff font
Message-ID: <141@fishpond.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 88 22:40:18 GMT
References: <22078@sgi.SGI.COM>
Reply-To: fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish)
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In article <22078@sgi.SGI.COM> andru@rhialto.SGI.COM (Andrew Myers) writes:
>For some reason, the following piece of input to nroff fails to work
>properly on my system.
>....					Do other people have
>this problem? -Andrew

This also fails on Apple's A/UX.  I noticed exactly the same problem
some months ago while writing some documentation, but wrote it off as
just an A/UX glitch.  Looks like I was wrong.  The only cure I could
find was to use \fR in place of \fP, wherever it broke.

-Fred
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