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  1. .TH COL 1
  2. .SH NAME
  3. col \- column alignment
  4. .SH SYNOPSIS
  5. .B col
  6. [
  7. .B -bfx
  8. ]
  9. .SH DESCRIPTION
  10. .I Col
  11. overlays lines to expunge reverse line feeds
  12. (ESC-7)
  13. and half line feeds (ESC-9 and ESC-8)
  14. as produced by
  15. .I nroff
  16. for .2C in
  17. .IR ms (6)
  18. or
  19. .IR man (6)
  20. and for
  21. .IR tbl (1).
  22. .I Col
  23. is a pure filter.
  24. It normally emits only full line feeds;
  25. option
  26. .B -f
  27. (fine) allows half line feeds too.
  28. Option
  29. .B -b
  30. removes backspaces, printing just one of each pile of overstruck
  31. characters.
  32. .I Col
  33. normally converts white space to tabs;
  34. option
  35. .B -x
  36. overrides this feature.
  37. Other escaped characters and non-printing characters are ignored.
  38. .SH EXAMPLES
  39. .TP
  40. .L
  41. tbl file | nroff -ms | col | p
  42. Format some tables for printing on typewriters;
  43. use
  44. .I col
  45. to remove reverse line feeds, and
  46. paginate the output.
  47. .SH SEE ALSO
  48. .IR pr (1)
  49. .SH BUGS
  50. .I Col
  51. can't back up more than 128 lines or
  52. handle more than 800 characters per line,
  53. and understands
  54. .L VT
  55. (013) as reverse line feed.