Annotation of coherent/b/bin/troff/etc/fwb.regs, revision 1.1.1.1

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                      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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