[Groff] The permuted index from Hell

[Larry Kollar]

So I got this bright idea to build a permuted index for the MIBs we  
support in our products at work. It might be helpful for customers  
who are trying to figure out which MIB object would have the  
information they're looking for.

So I grabbed the textutils package and built it, checking over the  
documentation several times, installing an "eign" file in the right  
place, and adding the #define to the ptx source code so it will  
*find* the ignore list. Then once I fed some sample data in, I  
figured out which options I needed (settling on "ptx -frRO -F  
'...'"), then wrote an awk script to pull what I wanted out of the  
MIB files.

After a bit of debugging, and writing a Q&D ".xx" macro to format the  
index, I was ready to see what I had. What I had was 253 pages of 8- 
point text, formatted properly.

Back to the drawing board, I guess.

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