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%%  The LaTeX Graphics Companion, 2ed (first printing May 2007)
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%%  Example 6-2-35 on page 350.
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%%  Copyright (C) 2007 Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, Denis Roegel, Sebastian Rahtz, Herbert Vo\ss 
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%%  It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%%  of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%%  of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%%  See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{159.83385pt}
\setlength\parindent{0pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{pstricks,pst-node}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\fnode(0.5,0){A}\fnode*(2.5,0){B}
\ncline{A}{B} \\[5mm]
\fnode[framesize=20pt](0.5,0){A}%
\fnode*[framesize=1 5pt](2.5,0){B}
\ncline{A}{B}
\end{document}