1 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc .TH COL 1
 2 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc .SH NAME
 3 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc col \- column alignment
 4 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc .SH SYNOPSIS
 5 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc .B col
 6 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc [
 7 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc .B -bfx 
 8 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc ]
 9 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc .SH DESCRIPTION
10 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc .I Col
11 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc overlays lines to expunge reverse line feeds
12 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc (ESC-7)
13 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc and half line feeds (ESC-9 and ESC-8)
14 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc as produced by
15 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc .I nroff
16 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc for .2C in
17 d32deab1 2020-08-16 rsc .MR ms (7)
18 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc or
19 d32deab1 2020-08-16 rsc .MR man (7)
20 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc and for 
21 d32deab1 2020-08-16 rsc .MR tbl (1) .
22 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc .I Col
23 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc is a pure filter.
24 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc It normally emits only full line feeds;
25 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc option 
26 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc .B -f
27 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc (fine) allows half line feeds too.
28 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc Option 
29 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc .B -b
30 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc removes backspaces, printing just one of each pile of overstruck
31 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc characters.
32 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc .I Col
33 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc normally converts white space to tabs;
34 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc option
35 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc .B -x
36 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc overrides this feature.
37 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc Other escaped characters and non-printing characters are ignored.
38 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc .SH EXAMPLES
39 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc .TP
40 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc .L
41 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc tbl file | nroff -ms | col | p
42 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc Format some tables for printing on typewriters;
43 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc use
44 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc .I col
45 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc to remove reverse line feeds, and 
46 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc paginate the output.
47 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc .SH SOURCE
48 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc .B \*9/src/cmd/col.c
49 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc .SH SEE ALSO
50 d32deab1 2020-08-16 rsc .MR pr (1)
51 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc .SH BUGS
52 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc .I Col
53 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc can't back up more than 128 lines or
54 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc handle more than 800 characters per line,
55 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc and understands
56 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc .L VT
57 72197f89 2014-10-21 rsc (013) as reverse line feed.