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From: Arjen Bax <arjen DOT bax AT cmg DOT nl>
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: RE: col missing from cygwin
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 08:39:11 +0200
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Aloha,

Brad Barber [mailto:bradb AT atg DOT com] wrote on
Tuesday, March 27, 2001 4:37 PM:

> The unprintables are backspaces for enhancing the screen display of
> the page.  For straight ascii text, Unix in a Nutshell 
> recommends using
>         man find | col -b
> This is what I use on Unix systems.  It works well.

It may be a little off topic, but you may use the following one-liner
instead of 'col':

    perl -wpe 's/.\010//g'

HTH,
Arjen Bax
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