From: Dennis Ritchie <dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ctype(2)
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 20:08:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <088b2945ca5253ffe23c37a697db5f27@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E301521.397B9AD7@null.net>
I played with this a bit. There was a command 'col'
in earlier Unix distributions and probably even in
earlier Plan 9 that did interpret these the
reverse line-feeds. The 10th edition version
of col.c compiles and works in Plan 9 (with ape),
but the result isn't perfect: the last line of
the 2-col list of functions overlays the
DESCRIPTION header.
Probably there is some bug in troff -n,
the tmac.an macros, or col, given that
the rendering is fine in the troff version.
It also turns out that adding a .PP to the
ctype man page source, just after the
.C1 and just before .SH DESCRIPTION, fixes the
col rendition.
I'll be happy to supply col.c publicly or
privately if there is interest.
Dennis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-24 1:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-22 16:19 C H Forsyth
2003-01-23 16:25 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-01-24 1:08 ` Dennis Ritchie [this message]
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2003-01-22 14:15 Sam
2003-01-22 16:09 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-01-22 17:21 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-01-23 11:41 ` Aharon Robbins
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