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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
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Subject: use nroff! (was Re: roman numerals)
Message-ID: <1990Jan30.224900.29361@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 30 Jan 90 22:49:00 GMT
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In-Reply-To: lipton@odin.m2c.org (Gary Lipton)

In article <5306@m2c.M2C.ORG>, lipton@odin (Gary Lipton) writes:
| Is there a program to convert from arabic to roman numerals?

Yeah, it's called nroff.  (Betcha thought I was going to say Perl! :-)

$ nroff <<'EOF'
.pl 1
.af a I
.nr a 1990
\na
EOF
MCMXC
$

It works up to the big numbers.

Just another hacker finding strange uses for standard tools,
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