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From: bamford@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Harold E. Bamford)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: pic preprocessor for troff
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Date: 16 Jan 89 21:32:41 GMT
References: <1000@cmx.npac.syr.edu>
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In article <1000@cmx.npac.syr.edu> crockett@top.cis.syr.edu (Peter Crockett) writes:
>A professor came here with some troff source which uses a troff
>preprocessor called pic.  He had the code for pic sent here, but it
>generates a troff directive D which is not understood by any troff on
>campus.  Anyone know anything about pic and/or the nature of this
>mysterious directive?

Try re-compiling pic with -DOLDTROFF.  I believe that this will cause
drawing to be done with the old-style of troff commands.  The D directive
is (I believe) new with ditroff.