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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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                      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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