col.1 (995B)
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 .MR ms (7) 18 or 19 .MR man (7) 20 and for 21 .MR 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 SOURCE 48 .B \*9/src/cmd/col.c 49 .SH SEE ALSO 50 .MR pr (1) 51 .SH BUGS 52 .I Col 53 can't back up more than 128 lines or 54 handle more than 800 characters per line, 55 and understands 56 .L VT 57 (013) as reverse line feed.