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From: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: nroff trouble Re: Announcing:  Mush 7.0
Keywords: Mush 7.0 on a Sun 3 under SunOS 3.5
Message-ID: <1051@kosman.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 89 23:35:37 GMT
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Reply-To: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Root)
Organization: K.O.'s Manor - Vital Computer Systems, Oxnard, CA 93035
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Just a nit, folks, but if you're stuck with nroff like me, your pages are
going to get a bit ragged because there are a few bits of text that don't
stay between the lines.  I'm not sure how to fix some of these, so here
they are the way they appear in mush.1:

: alts island maui molokai ceylon !cory.berkeley.edu!dheller !root
: \+<num>	keep only the first <num> messages matched (head).
: \-<num>	keep only the last <num> messages matched (tail).
: set autosign2 = \*Q!island @berkeley.edu @mit.edu *schaefer root: \--dan\*U

They go beyong 80 columns, and if your printer starts a new line for them,
the top-of-page may get messed up because there are no form-feeds in nroff
output.  Or at least not in MY nroff output.

Actually, in my case, I have software that folds the lines automatically
because I have a wide-carriage printer that I almost always load with
narrow paper.  This scheme works well for everything except nroff.

In other cases, your printer may just go ahead and print, and the results
will depend on the size of paper you use and whether you remove the perfs.

Anyway, I'm posting this so you can fix it before you print the 80 pages,
and so the authors can find a way to fix these lines.