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Revision Date: $$REVS
Program Version: $$VERS
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NOTICE: This document describes a program which the 
Digital Equipment Corporation has no commitment 
to offer or support at this time. This document 
is believed to be an accurate  
description of RUNOFF. 
You may feel free to distribute this program to other users.  Please do not
sell this program.  
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This version of RUNOFF is a major rewriting of RNO.
The revisions essentially add almost all features from DSR to RUNOFF while
maintaining compatibility.  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 permanent margins
are also implemented.  The permanent margins can cause incompatible output
with respect to the headers if they are not set. In addition all FLAGS are
redefinable and all 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. 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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The philosophy of this version of RNO has been to create a program which can
handle virtually any printer with minimal support for any specific printer. As
a result of this decision, general mechanisms have been included for printer
control, but only suggested escape sequence definitions have been added as
part of the permanent escape sequence table. The maximum size page is 127
lines by 255 characters (21 by 25 inches). This should be adequate for all but
the most perverse applications. 
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You are welcome to make modifications and additions to the this version.
There are hints in INTERNALS.DOC and also in the section on building RNO.
I would appreciate a copy of any mods, so they can be incorporated into
future distributions.
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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 all errors can be patched. I will try to
maintain this version and release new versions with most bugs fixed and some
enhancements added.  This program runs on RSX/IAS/VMS/RT/TSX and presumably
RSTS. The RT version was prepared by Gary McMillian a graduate student here at
the Rice Physics department. 
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.RIGHT text;John Clement
T.#W.#Bonner Nuclear Lab
Rice University
P.O.#Box 1892
Houston, Tx, 77251
Tel (713) 527-4018
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