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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:38:07 -0500
To: Brad Barber <bradb AT atg DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: RE: col missing from cygwin
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At 09:36 AM 3/27/2001, Brad Barber wrote:
>At 06:23 PM Monday 3/26/2001, you wrote:
> >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.
>
>Thanks Larry and Kevin for your replies.  
>
>'col' is not compiled for the cygwin binary distribution.  I don't know
>what package it belongs to.  


Perhaps its not in one.  If you'd like to hunt down the code and volunteer
to be the maintainer, you could add 'col' to Cygwin's tool set.


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