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PIC(1)  —  

NAME

pic − troff preprocessor for drawing simple pictures

SYNOPSIS

pic [ options ] [ files ]

DESCRIPTION

Pic is a troff(1) preprocessor for drawing simple figures on a typesetter.  The basic objects are box, line, arrow, circle, ellipse, arc, and text. 

The following options are recognized by pic.

−Tt Specify that pic use the t typesetter.  Currently the 3812 (the IBM 3812 Pageprinter) is supported. 

−xn Set the maximum x coordinate to n.

−yn Set the maximum y coordinate to n.

SEE ALSO

B.W. Kernighan, PIC − A Graphics Language for Typesetting

PRPQs 5799-WZQ/5799-PFF: IBM/4.3  —  Sept 1988

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