<html><head><meta name="color-scheme" content="light dark"></head><body><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">#! /local/bin/perl

# fix.pl  17-Nov-93  Craig Milo Rogers at USC/ISI
#
#	The style guide for RFCs calls for pages to be delimited by the
# sequence &lt;last-non-blank-line&gt;&lt;formfeed-line&gt;&lt;first-non-blank-line&gt;.
# Unfortunately, NROFF is reluctant to produce output that conforms to
# this convention.  This script fixes RFC-style documents by searching
# for the token "FORMFEED[Page", replacing "FORMFEED" with spaces,
# appending a formfeed line, and deleting white space up to the next
# non-white space character.
#
#	There is one difference between this script's output and that of
# the "fix.sh" and "pg" programs it replaces:  this script includes a
# newline after the formfeed after the last page in a file, whereas the
# earlier programs left a bare formfeed as the last character in the
# file.  To obtain bare formfeeds, uncomment the second substitution
# command below.  To strip the final formfeed, uncomment the third
# substitution command below.
#
#	This script is intended to run as a filter, as in:
#
# nroff -ms input-file | fix.pl &gt; output-file
#
#	When porting this script, please observe the following points:
#
# 1)	ISI keeps perl in "/local/bin/perl";  your system may keep it
#	elsewhere.
# 2)	On systems with a CRLF end-of-line convention, the "\n"s below
#	may have to be replaced with "\r\n"s.

$* = 1;					# Enable multiline patterns.
undef $/;				# Read whole files in a single
					# gulp.

while (&lt;&gt;) {				# Read the entire input file.
    s/FORMFEED(\[Page\s+\d+\])\s+/        \1\n\f\n/g;
					# Rewrite the end-of-pages.
#    s/\f\n$/\f/;			# Want bare formfeed at end?
#    s/\f\n$//;				# Want no formfeed at end?
    print;				# Print the resultant file.
}

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