Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: net.bugs.usg Subject: PIC bug Message-ID: <5334@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 16-Oct-84 15:55:18 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.5334 Posted: Tue Oct 16 15:55:18 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Oct-84 00:44:07 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 15 For anyone who is using the OLDTROFF flavor of PIC (the one that drives pre-Device Independent TROFF), one of the fellows here uncovered a bug. In some cases, the DDAed dots output to simulate one of the graphic primitives (e.g., a line) will produce output text lines that are too long for other software such as "tbl". There is a test for this in the code but it is wrong. Around line 518 in source file "pltroff.c", change if (nput++ > 100) { /* crude approx: troff input buffer ~ 400 */ to /* DAG -- bug fix (100 is too much since h,v motions are interspersed) */ if (nput++ > 40) { /* crude approx: troff input buffer ~ 400 */