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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: erik quanstrom <quanstro@speakeasy.net>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] rcmain
Date: Fri,  9 Dec 2005 16:34:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0512091334j3360566dn81c71bc8b35fb49b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051209210230.A3B66F908E@dexter-peak.quanstro.net>

> rcmain has an interesting construct. it goes something like

What rcmain are you looking at?  I can't find $#'fn#cd' anywhere.

While we're on the topic of surprising constructs, I discovered
this about troff earlier today:

.ds A0 "This is string A0
.ds A1 "This is string A1
.ds A2 "This is string A2
.de A
.tm Look: \\*(A\\$1
..
.A 1

Russ


  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-09 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-09 21:02 erik quanstrom
2005-12-09 21:34 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2005-12-09 21:46   ` erik quanstrom

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