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From: bruce@bnr-vpa.UUCP
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Subject: Re: nroff help
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Date: Thu, 26-Nov-87 10:37:09 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 26 10:37:09 1987
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In article <2203@killer.UUCP> jfh@killer.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes:
>There is a package that came down the net before The Great Name Change
>which could be used to build character tables for nroff.  I am willing
>to send it out if need be, but I'd much rather have someone figure out
>what archives it's in so I don't duplicate someone else's job.

	I am the author of the "table" utility referred to above.  It
is for use with USG systems that do not have the ability to prepare
new nroff terminal driver tables.  I have recently sent a new version
to the moderator of comp.sources.unix (two weeks ago), but have not
heard anything back, nor have I seen any articles recently in that
group.  Perhaps he is on vacation, or busy with other things.  In any
case, I hope to have it distributed net-wide soon!

	The new version is much better than the old.  Some bugs have
been found and fixed, and there is a better Makefile.  Also, for those
who have HP-UX, with nroff supporting Kanji characters, the old table
utility is broken.  The new one will support this.

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