henry%angel@Sun.COM (Henry McGilton -- Software Products) (04/13/89)
There is a book titled Document Formatting and Typesetting on the UNIX System by Narain Gehani. In the chapter on pic, the author makes certain claims about the capabilities of pic. In the version of pic we have, from the DWB 2.0 release, there were discrepancies between the pic we received and the pic described in the abovementioned manuscript. Three things in particular that are different: o he describes a pic variable called arrowhead, which controls the appearance of arrowheads (the degree of filling). Our DWB 2.0 version does not contain such a variable. o he describes a printf function which enables you to dynamically generate text. Our DWB 2.0 version does not contain such a function. o The syntax of if and for statements described in the book differed radically from the version we received. I fixed the version we received to fit the syntax described in the book. The question is: can anyone (does Narain Gehani read this newsgroup??) shed light on what version of DWB he is describing, where that version exists, when it will be available, and why the versions we get from A.T.T. licensing are so different from what we read about in published literature? Please E-Mail your responses and I will summarise them. Thanks in advance, Henry McGilton +------------------+-----------------------+---------------------------+ | Henry McGilton | | arpa: hmcgilton@sun.com | | Sun Microsystems | | uucp: ...!sun!angel!henry | | Mt. View, CA | | | +------------------+-----------------------+---------------------------+