gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) (06/15/91)
In article <17025@darkstar.ucsc.edu> de@helios.ucsc.edu (De Clarke) writes: >instances of ESC 9 -- a control sequence which doesn't >ring any bells for me! Bell is Ctrl-G; ESC 9 is a half-line motion. If you don't know what to do with them, use "col" to handle them.
clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) (06/16/91)
In article <17025@darkstar.ucsc.edu> de@helios.ucsc.edu (De Clarke) writes: |Periodically we will snarf some nifty PD software off |an anon ftp host somewhere. Most recently we got MH. |I notice with the documentatin for MH, and I have |noticed in the past for some docs from CERT, that it |is nearly impossible to print them readably. |These docs are formatted with nroff (ugh) and lots of |clever macros. The mystery is that they contain many |instances of ESC 9 -- a control sequence which doesn't |ring any bells for me! This sequence is invisible on |normal terminals, but all my printers print it in one |form or another. Ugly. The ESC 9's etc. are reverse line feeds on TTY37's or some such. Pipe the output of nroff thru col before printing it. eg: nroff <arguments> | col | lpr -- Chris Lewis, Phone: (613) 832-0541, Domain: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca UUCP: ...!cunews!latour!ecicrl!clewis; Ferret Mailing List: ferret-request@eci386; Psroff (not Adobe Transcript) enquiries: psroff-request@eci386 or Canada 416-832-0541. Psroff 3.0 in c.s.u soon!