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