VI/NROFF symbolics question

Guy Harris guy at auspex.UUCP
Fri Jan 27 06:47:19 AEST 1989


>Be sure not to clobber any variables your macro package may use.  If you
>use "mm," you should be safe as "mm" uses obscure variable names (such as
>"]D," etc.).

Note that, at least in the "[nt]roff" versions with which I'm familiar,
macros and strings are really the same thing, so don't use string names
that match the names of macros.



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