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From: scowles@lll-lcc.UUCP (Sid Cowles)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: re: {n,pt}roff with mm on suns
Summary: thanks very much for the help
Keywords: old troff's and modern mm functions
Message-ID: <2405@lll-lcc.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 89 02:55:12 GMT
Reply-To: scowles@lll-lcc.llnl.gov (Sid Cowles)
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Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, Comp Center, Livermore CA
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i would like to thank the people who responded to this query.
the answer was straightforward:  mm has a function that older
versions of {n,t}roff don't handle (the \g function).  thanks
very much for the assistance.
sid
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