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"Oh nuts%! I have to type this whole page over". That 
complaint is probably heard many times in the course 
of preparing manuscripts--reports, letters, minutes and so on.
Then there is the problem of making duplicate 
^&original\&
copies of a typed 
manuscript. When we use an ordinary typewriter,
text-processing, as this is called, can be a time-consuming
and harassing job. The RUNOFF facility, which operates
under <IAS, <RSX-11D, <RSX-11M, <RSTS/E, and <VAX/VMS(*),
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(*) The standard RSX-based or RSX emulating Digital supplied
operating systems.
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was written to handle these procedures for you;
you merely type in the first version and make 
any necessary corrections later. By 
using the "commands" that you type in with your lines of 
text, the computer prints out as many "first" copies as you 
wish, with margins, spacing, indentation, etc., performed 
in accordance with your commands.
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One of the most usefull features of RUNOFF is right-margin
justfication, as in book and newspaper printing. This 
means that your text is spaced as evenly as possible
between the margins of your printed page, filling in with
blanks where necessary. The printed line is
under control of a "line-length" command; any
short line that you type in will "grab" words
from a longer line above or below it, and fill out the
line with blanks where necessary to avoid splitting words
at the margins. This is the ordinary (or default) mode under
RUNOFF. You can, however, have lines printed out 
exactly as you type them in, with no justification
performed by RUNOFF, by including a command that instructs
the computer to turn off the format mode. This is useful
for typing figures and charts. Line justification can
later be respecified if desired.
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