YELP about obtaining nroff (longish)

Larry Wall lwall at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV
Sat Feb 9 06:03:27 AEST 1991


In article <1991Feb07.195547.22813 at crom2.uucp> jim at crom2.uucp (James P. H. Fuller) writes:
: In summary, I've really run into a blank wall on this.  I'm trying to in-
: stall a smart mailer and I want to read Larry Wall's paper on paths and
: pathalias, and the paper is widely available but it's so thoroughly nroff'ed
: (among other things) that it's actually broken up into a bunch of ittybitty
: pieces with a makefile!  As far as I'm concerned it might as well be written
: in Babylonian.  

I don't know if this counts as the handwriting on the blank wall you ran
into, but I don't recall having had anything to do with a paper on paths
and pathalias.

Larry Wall
lwall at jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov



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