Paul Eggert wrote: > Another possibility on Solaris 8 is to pipe nroff's output through the > 'col' command (e.g., 'nroff -man manpage | col'); this will filter out > the model-37 characters and will cause '\(co' to output as 'c', which > is perhaps the best that can be done on some devices.
Let me second the usefulness of 'col'. I don't like the funky overstrike mode and use it to "clean up" the output. Paul, But wouldn't someone need 'col -b'? I have always used it that way and now can't say if it is require or not. : -b Do not output any backspaces, printing only the last character : written to each column position. Otherwise the description does not say it cleans up backspaces as you describe. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
