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.COMMENT EDITED 15-SEP-79 FOR LIBRARY RELEASE -- M. F. LEWIS 
.COMMENT EDITED AUGUST 82 FOR MANY MODIFACATIONS -- J. CLEMENT 
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RUNOFF 
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Revision Date: November 82 
Program Version: M03.0 
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Document Revision 
November 1982 
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NOTICE: This document describes a program which the 
Digital Equipment Corporation has no committment 
to offer or support at this time. This document 
is, however, believed to be an accurate  
description of RUNOFF. 
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This version of RUNOFF is a major revision of the RNO working group version. 
The revisions essentially add a large number of features from DSR to RUNOFF 
while maintaining compatability.  There are 3 known incompatible changes, 
to the .CENTER , .NUMBER, and .FOOTNOTE commands.  The additions include 
the .REQUIRE command, overstrike capability, and escape sequence handling. 
A macro facility via the SUBSTITUTE flag has been added and permenant margins 
are also implemented.  The permenant margins can cause incompatible output 
with respect to the headers if they are not set. 
In addition all FLAGS are redefinable and many can be enabled/disabled. 
The escape sequence handling has been designed to give the user the ability 
to define arbitrary sequences, and intermix them with standard RNO text. 
This is capable of handling any arbitrary printer.  This should obsolete 
the RNO preprocessors now in use.  Since both this version of RNO and the 
previous versions used ASCII non printing characters internally,  including 
such characters in your input file could be disastrous.  To prevent this 
all such characters with the exception of CR,LF,TAB are ignored. 
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If you have any problems with this version I will be glad to answer your 
questions.  I do not guarantee that a simple fix can be made,  but since 
much  dead wood has been pruned from this version, it may be easier to 
fix bugs. 
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.R;John Clement 
.R;T.#W.#Bonner Nuclear Lab 
.R;Rice University 
.R;P.O.#Box 1892 
.R;Houston, Tx, 77251 
.R;Tel (713) 669-8144