PIC bug
Doug Gwyn <gwyn>
gwyn at brl-tgr.ARPA
Wed Oct 17 05:55:18 AEST 1984
For anyone who is using the OLDTROFF flavor of PIC (the one that
drives pre-Device Independent TROFF), one of the fellows here
uncovered a bug. In some cases, the DDAed dots output to simulate
one of the graphic primitives (e.g., a line) will produce output
text lines that are too long for other software such as "tbl".
There is a test for this in the code but it is wrong.
Around line 518 in source file "pltroff.c", change
if (nput++ > 100) { /* crude approx: troff input buffer ~ 400 */
to
/* DAG -- bug fix (100 is too much since h,v motions are interspersed) */
if (nput++ > 40) { /* crude approx: troff input buffer ~ 400 */
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