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From: juhas AT blue DOT seas DOT upenn DOT edu (PAVOL  JUHAS)
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Subject: Re: col filter
Date: 13 Dec 2001 17:26:08 GMT
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CBFalconer (cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com) wrote:
> PAVOL JUHAS wrote:
> > 
> > I did my homework on GOOGLE, but I could not find it:
> > Is there a col utility - reverse line-feeds filter for DJGPP?

> What are you talking about?

AFAIK, col is available on *IX/Linux systems,  col -b is useful for
filtering the output of man to get a plain text (without C-H characters).

man col:
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NAME
     col - reverse line-feeds filter

SYNOPSIS
     col [ -bfpx ]

DESCRIPTION
     The col utility reads from the standard input and writes  to
     the  standard  output. It performs the line overlays implied
     by reverse line-feeds, and  by  forward  and  reverse  half-
     line-feeds.   Unless -x is used, all blank characters in the
     input will be converted to tab characters wherever possible.
     col is particularly useful for filtering multi-column output
     made with the .rt command of nroff(1) and  output  resulting
     from use of the tbl(1) preprocessor.