Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: VI/NROFF symbolics question
Message-ID: <896@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 89 20:47:19 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Be sure not to clobber any variables your macro package may use.  If you
>use "mm," you should be safe as "mm" uses obscure variable names (such as
>"]D," etc.).

Note that, at least in the "[nt]roff" versions with which I'm familiar,
macros and strings are really the same thing, so don't use string names
that match the names of macros.