[Suns-at-Home] xterm number of columns when performing man pages display

[Bob Hoekstra]

Thanks for that Ben. I've just turned 50 last week - does that lump me
in with the greybeards?

Like you sense of humour though. Strangely, just this morning I was
listening to the bookshop sketch on my ipod :-)

Lewis, Benjamin (Ben) wrote:
>> Unless you want to rewrite the nroff
> 
> Hello Bob
> 
> Just looked in my cupboard and found a manual titled "Memorandum Macros
> - Document Formatting and Typesetting on the UNIX System" by DW Smith.
> Copyright 1980 AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories. It's more or less a 345
> page troff man page printed out and bound.
> 
> Every now and then we find an old document typeset with troff about an
> obscure 5ESS circuit pack in the back of someones desk drawer and all
> the greybeards start reminiscing about nroff et al at the coffee
> machine. It usually sounds something like the Monty Python "Four
> Yorkshiremen" sketch:-
> 
> 1st Greybeard : "In my day we didn't have none of your fancy mice, we
> had to type it all in by hand".
> 2nd Greybeard : "Keyboard!? Luxury! In my day we all we had were toggle
> switches and we liked 'em!".
> 3rd Greybeard : "Toggle switches! Pah! All we had was a ha'penny screw
> driver to short the pins".
> 4th Greybeard : "Screw driver!".
> 
> etc etc...
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Ben
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