kak@hico2.UUCP (Kris A. Kugel) (03/08/91)
I'm looking for a PD source for "col" so I can modify it to add an option to treat backspaces differently. The version I have will allow me to remove leading <character><backspace> with the -b option, but what I want is for those lines to be overprinted on a line by line basis rather than a character-by-character basis, so I can send it to a printer which treats \r and \n differently: [line]\r[overprint portion of line]\r\n I wrote a similar tool a while ago, but it was lost in a disk crash :-( Anyway, it seems like it would make more sense to combine it with col. Kris A. Kugel ( 908 ) 842-2707 uunet!tsdiag.ccur.com!hico2!kak {daver,ditka,zorch}!hico2!kak internet: kak@hico2.westmark.com