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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: British pound sign in troff?
Message-ID: <1067@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 89 21:22:59 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>\(po and \(ps are SPECIAL CHARACTERS. If available, they are defined in
>/usr/lib/font/devXXX/DESC,

Assuming you have a sufficiently modern version of "troff" (i.e., the
"device-independent" one); if you don't have that, said characters are,
quite likely, unavailable.