NAME
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col – column alignment |
SYNOPSIS
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col [ –bfx ] |
DESCRIPTION
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Col overlays lines to expunge reverse line feeds (ESC–7) and half
line feeds (ESC–9 and ESC–8) as produced by nroff for .2C in ms(6)
or man(6) and for tbl(1). Col is a pure filter. It normally emits
only full line feeds; option –f (fine) allows half line feeds too.
Option –b removes backspaces, printing just one of each pile
of overstruck characters. Col normally converts white space to
tabs; option –x overrides this feature. Other escaped characters
and non–printing characters are ignored. |
EXAMPLES
tbl file | nroff –ms | col | p
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SEE ALSO
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pr(1) |
BUGS
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Col can't back up more than 128 lines or handle more than 800
characters per line, and understands VT (013) as reverse line
feed. |