Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!adm!ted@braggvax.arpa From: ted@braggvax.arpa Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: troff previewer for AT&T 5620 (really PIC) Message-ID: <8185@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 17:24:05 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-adm.8185 Posted: Mon Jul 6 17:24:05 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Jul-87 06:55:16 EDT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 16 >From: "Carl S. Gutekunst"> >I know how pic works. It uses a line drawing facility that was new in ditroff; >you can't use pic with the old CAT troff, for example. My claim was that proof >crashed the terminal when it saw these new line drawing functions. Actually, you can use PIC with CAT troff. In the version we got when I was at usceast, there was a flag you could throw while compiling Pic to make it use the old CAT troff dot drawing functions or some such. I don't think this was mentioned anywhere but in the code. (And the comment there was something like "They tell me backwards compatability is important"). Ted Nolan ted@braggvax.arpa