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From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: mv macro set documentation - found!
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:43:47 -0500
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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In my opinion, mv needs a whole lot of improvement - especially for  
something dated 1980. Uriel's slides collection is more supreme; I  
have yet to look at yours.

On Nov 11, 2007, at 8:40 PM, Darren Bane wrote:

> Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
>> Hello. I was noticing the Plan 9 Documentation Project needed info on
>> the mv macro set. Apparently, according to http://troff.org/
>> macros.html, a Rick Richardson (whose email address is on that page,
>> fortunately) gave me a pdf containing the original paper on mv. I
>> will be putting it in /n/sources/contrib/pietro later - but beware;
>> the pdf is humongous, and can choke page (or whatever pdf viewer you
>> use) - I suffered.
>
> Slightly off-topic, but future readers on Google Groups may be
> interested to know that I prefer the results from Russ Cox's macros
> in /n/sources/contrib/rsc/talk.  Obviously other people's tastes will
> differ.
> -- 
> Darren Bane
>