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Re: [Groff] Blast from the past
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Steffen Nurpmeso |
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Re: [Groff] Blast from the past |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Feb 2015 21:14:26 +0100 |
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Heinz-Jürgen Oertel <address@hidden> wrote:
|Am Montag, 9. Februar 2015, 16:19:51 schrieb Peter Schaffter:
|> Groffers --
|>
|> I don't see any mention of this in the list archives, and it's too
|> wonderful to miss. If you want a glimpse of days gone by, have a
|> look at
|>
|> http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/751318.pdf
|
|I like this statement:
|"ROFF is a computer program which produces esthetically pleasing \
|manuscripts from punched card source texts."
..and i hoped that it wasn't used for producing the document in
question, seldom have i seen such huge gaps in between words, it's
almost unreadable (in fact i gave up after a few pages)!
--steffen
- [Groff] Blast from the past, Peter Schaffter, 2015/02/09
- Re: [Groff] Blast from the past, Ted Harding, 2015/02/09
- Re: [Groff] Blast from the past, Heinz-Jürgen Oertel, 2015/02/10
- Re: [Groff] Blast from the past,
Steffen Nurpmeso <=
- Re: [Groff] Blast from the past, Dale Snell, 2015/02/10
- Re: [Groff] Blast from the past, Jones, Larry, 2015/02/10
- Re: [Groff] Blast from the past, Deri James, 2015/02/10
- Re: [Groff] Blast from the past, Heinz-Jürgen Oertel, 2015/02/11
- Re: [Groff] Blast from the past, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2015/02/11
- Re: [Groff] Blast from the past, Greg 'groggy' Lehey, 2015/02/12
- Re: [Groff] Blast from the past, Dale Snell, 2015/02/11
- Re: [Groff] Blast from the past, Jones, Larry, 2015/02/10
- Re: [Groff] Blast from the past, Heinz-Jürgen Oertel, 2015/02/10
- Re: [Groff] Blast from the past, Larry Kollar, 2015/02/11