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From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Proliferation of options is great simplification of pipes, really?
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 08:16:32 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210222211631.bbf7as6r76kxoowt@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC0cEp-72A3vQn_1oF-TsLGNf5LXqaopPyzgb2KiVOqi7Bs+NQ@mail.gmail.com>

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At 2021-02-22T11:03:43-0500, John P. Linderman wrote:
> On a brute-forcier note, when I was doing a lot more troff, I wrote a
> command that ran input through *ALL* the preprocessors I might need.
> Even on 70's processors, it was fast enough, and msde my life a tiny
> bit better.  -- jpl

No crime in that.  An alias or shell function to call "groff -Rpet"
would take care of all the V7 Unix preprocessors.

Regards,
Branden

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-22 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-22  2:34 Will Senn
2021-02-22  3:32 ` G. Branden Robinson
2021-02-22  4:32   ` Dan Stromberg
2021-02-22  4:34   ` Will Senn
2021-02-22  5:45     ` G. Branden Robinson
2021-02-22 15:49   ` John P. Linderman
2021-02-22 15:57     ` William Cheswick
2021-02-22 16:03       ` John P. Linderman
2021-02-22 21:16         ` G. Branden Robinson [this message]
2021-02-22 16:02     ` Warner Losh
2021-02-22 16:12     ` Robert Clausecker
2021-02-22 17:15       ` John Cowan
2021-02-23  0:24       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-02-22 21:14     ` G. Branden Robinson
2021-02-22  7:20 ` Rich Morin
2021-02-22 18:27 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-02-22 19:30   ` Richard Salz
2021-02-23  2:47 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-02-23 10:42 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2021-02-23 13:23   ` Brantley Coile
2021-02-23 13:49 ` Ralph Corderoy
2021-02-23 15:04 Steve Simon
2021-02-24  2:42 ` M Douglas McIlroy
2021-02-24 19:38 Norman Wilson

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