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From: "Kevin Wright" <kevin AT wright DOT org>
To: "Brad Barber" <bradb AT atg DOT com>, <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: RE: col missing from cygwin
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 15:23:34 -0800
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Brad,

If you look in the file /usr/lib/man.conf, you will find the 
following note:

# Useful paths - note that COL should not be defined when
# NROFF is defined as "groff -Tascii" or "groff -Tlatin1";
# not only is it superfluous, but it actually damages the output.
#

This is the reason that the path for col is commented out. I have
tried with col (that I compiled) and didn't see any improvement,
so I commented out again.

--Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com]On Behalf Of Brad Barber
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 2:56 PM
> To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> Subject: col missing from cygwin
> 
> 
> I noticed that the 'col' command is missing from cygwin.
> It is useful for turning man pages into text files without backspaces,
> e.g., 
> 	man find | col -b
> 
> This is recommended by Unix in a Nutshell.
> 
> 						--Brad (tcsh)
> 
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