Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pcrat!rick From: rick@pcrat.uucp (Rick Richardson) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: C/A/T troff bug with -mm macros (4.3BSD) Message-ID: <1989Dec30.052414.2908@pcrat.uucp> Date: 30 Dec 89 05:24:14 GMT References: <927@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> <336@vidiot.UUCP> <129466@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) Distribution: na Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ Lines: 25 In article <129466@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> henry%angel@Sun.COM (Henry McGilton -- Software Products) writes: >In article <336@vidiot.UUCP>, brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes: > * Wait-a-minute! What is a \g command? >As for your documentation, the documentation for DWB has >not been substantially updated or improved since 1976. >There were some perfunctory additions in the form of a >memorandum in 1982, and that's about it. If you get DWB Actually, the DWB documentation provided by AT&T in SVR3.2 (two books) and published by Prentice Hall does contain the description of this command, and they have been substantially changed and improved from what was the norm two years ago. I still wouldn't call the books 'great' by any stretch of the imagination, but they are a lot better. They've made some effort to include more examples, but they have a long way to go yet. -Rick -- Rick Richardson | Looking for FAX software for UNIX/386 ?????? mention PC Research,Inc.| WE'RE SHIPPING your uunet!pcrat!rick| Ask about FaxiX - UNIX Facsimile System (tm) FAX # (201) 389-8963 | Or JetRoff - troff postprocessor for the HP {Laser,Desk}Jet