'mm' for Ultrix?

[peters@ti-csl]

We recently switched from a Sys V based system to Ultrix 1.2. Some of our
users (myself included) are having problems with 'ms' and 'me'. We have
grown quite accustomed to 'mm'. I took a quick stab (VERY quick) at porting
'mm' to Ultrix, but several things (like page numbers and the table of contents)
don't work correctly. Before I invest too much time in this, I'd like to
know if anyone has already done this.

Please E-mail responses. I don't get this board on my system.

Thanks.

Patrick W. Peters
Texas Instruments

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[Lyle Plitt]

I think I know what is causing your problem.

The main symptom is a zillion leading zeros, or other characters,
in front of the page numbers. The problem is caused by bad parameters to
several *.af* commands (assigns format to a register).

The two registers getting screwed up are "P" (the page number register) and
";P". To work around the problem you need to make changes in two places ---
in the macros ".TP" and ")b". Replace the lines ".af ;P \\gP" with
".af ;P 1", and ".af P \\g(;P" with ".af P 1". This will force the page
number register to use the arabic numbering sequence.

Lyle Plitt
Harris Computer Systems Div.
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
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