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To: Ted Faber <faber@isi.edu>
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Subject: Re: shared libraries? 
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From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
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> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> 
> 
> Jim Bryant wrote:
> >In reply:
> >> Can someone point me to a reference (or explain it briefly) how PIC
> >> works?
> >1). man 1 pic
> >2). 4.4BSD User's Reference Manual [URM] (same thing)
> >[after looking through the USD, I only found chapters for EQN and TBL]..
> 
> He means position independent code (PIC) not pic the figure drawing
> tool.  But since I'm playing with pic the tool, I appreciate the
> pointer. :-)
> 
> - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ted Faber                                                faber@isi.edu
> USC/ISI Computer Scientist                   http://www.isi.edu/~faber
> (310) 822-1511 x190
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> 
> 

While we're talking about troff PIC, Brian Kernighan did a good tutorial
of it. (should be on the web someplace)..also the Hayden/Oreilly Unix Text 
Processing Tools .


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marty
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