[TUHS] Proliferation of options is great simplification of pipes, really?

G. Branden Robinson g.branden.robinson at gmail.com
Tue Feb 23 07:16:32 AEST 2021


At 2021-02-22T11:03:43-0500, John P. Linderman wrote:
> On a brute-forcier note, when I was doing a lot more troff, I wrote a
> command that ran input through *ALL* the preprocessors I might need.
> Even on 70's processors, it was fast enough, and msde my life a tiny
> bit better.  -- jpl

No crime in that.  An alias or shell function to call "groff -Rpet"
would take care of all the V7 Unix preprocessors.

Regards,
Branden
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