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Re: problems with sgml2txt (and tables ;)

To: rvaranka@cc.helsinki.fi
Subject: Re: problems with sgml2txt (and tables ;)
From: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@prosa.it>
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 16:25:18 +0100
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> It's good old backspace for overstrike purposes.

Yes. It is "good old", but nowadays often undesired (I don't like it,
either, and remove it from my manpages before viewing them :). The
easiest way to get rid of such stuff is filtering the output through
"col -b". Don't know what "col" means, I never found a meaning for
that command name.

/alessandro


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