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Date:      Fri, 29 Aug 1997 14:56:20 PDT
From:      "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
To:        Ted Faber <faber@isi.edu>
Cc:        jbryant@tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: shared libraries? 
Message-ID:  <9708292156.AA21581@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Aug 1997 13:23:37 PDT." <199708292023.AA00708@zephyr.isi.edu> 

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> 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 .


-- 
marty
leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com  
The Feynman problem solving Algorithm
        1) Write down the problem
        2) Think real hard
        3) Write down the answer
                Murray Gel-mann in the NY Times







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