Annotation of coherent/b/bin/troff/etc/fwb.regs, revision 1.1

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 19:57:57
        !             7: From: [email protected] (Fred Butzen)
        !             8: To: steve
        !             9: Subject: number registers
        !            10: 
        !            11: I tried the following under UNIX nroff:
        !            12: 
        !            13:        .nr AD 15
        !            14:        Normal addressing:
        !            15:        \n(AD
        !            16:        UNIX addressing:
        !            17:        .AD
        !            18: 
        !            19: This printed the following:
        !            20: 
        !            21:        Normal addressing:  15 UNIX addressing:
        !            22: 
        !            23: It appears that the number register wasn't printed the the macro-like
        !            24: addressing, but nroff didn't complain either.
        !            25: 
        !            26: Please remember that this was the result of eroff's "tbl", and it may not
        !            27: be standard.
        !            28: 
        !            29: 
        !            30: [email protected]                  --   Fred Butzen   --
        !            31:                                President, William Billings Chapter,
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        !            34: &&

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