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1.1     ! root        1: From lepanto!fred  Mon Jul 27 08:38:16 1992 remote from mwc
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        !             6: Date: 24 Jul 92 19:30:58
        !             7: From: [email protected] (Fred Butzen)
        !             8: To: steve
        !             9: Subject: .fc
        !            10: 
        !            11: Emerson & Paulsell define .fc as follows:
        !            12: 
        !            13:        .fc a b
        !            14:                Field character.  Sets the field delimiter to 'a'; sets the
        !            15:                padding character to 'b', if given.  Without an argument, it
        !            16:                turn off the field mechanism.
        !            17: 
        !            18: So, I interpret that as meaning:
        !            19:        .fc @
        !            20: 
        !            21: makes @ the field character; so .tl @foo@bar@baz@ would work.
        !            22: 
        !            23: I note that UNIX troff also recognizes the ^G character as a field delimiter
        !            24: by default.  You'll see lots of UNIX macro packages use ^G as the default
        !            25: delimiter, especially in contexts where macros have to handle apostrophes.
        !            26: 
        !            27: 
        !            28: [email protected]                  --   Fred Butzen   --
        !            29:                                President, William Billings Chapter,
        !            30:                                    Don Carlo Gesualdo Fan Club
        !            31: 
        !            32: &&

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