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- From: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO)
- Subject: Re: `nroff' copyright symbol macro "\(co" problem
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 14:46:31 GMT
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- d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart) writes:
-
- >Many of the files in the Elm doc subdirectory include what appears to be
- >an `nroff' copyright symbol macro:
- > \(co
- >Sadly, our AIX 3.2 `nroff' converts it to the following nonsense:
- > ^[8c^[9
- >where ^[ is the ESC character. ^[8 restores the cursor from its previously
- >saved position. ^[9 is not defined.
-
- ^[8 and ^[9 are half-line motions. Filter them out by piping the nroff output
- through col(1).
-
- /pbp
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