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Re: [Groff] Vgrind and vfontedpr
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Pierre-Jean |
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Re: [Groff] Vgrind and vfontedpr |
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Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:09:16 +0100 |
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Meg McRoberts <address@hidden> wrote:
> So this makes this visual-font-edit-and-print, which seems to be more or less
> what
> it does. That is one of the longer command/program names from the days when
> we
> used ASCII characters to do online art ;-)
That seems correct. Such a long name might be explained by
the fact that vfontedpr is most often called by vgrind than
by the user himself.
Doug McIlroy <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hence the meaning of grind has been extended to refer to
> long, slow, monotonous work. I suspect that's the intent
> of "grind" in vgrind.
You're probably right. In one of the source file (regexp.c),
a comment explain the situation: "loop till expression
string is exhausted (or at least pretty tired)". That's
maybe why the manual page says: "grind nice listings of
programms".
Thanks for your explanations,
Pierre-Jean.