rconn@brl@sri-unix.UUCP (09/24/83)
From: Rick Conn <rconn@brl> I received a message from someone on this list saying that col is the same as clman. According to my man entry on it, it is not. col filters reverse line feeds. clman filters man-generated sequences for boldface and underline, i.e., it deletes the "<underline><backspace>" and "<backspace><character>" (in that order) sequences from stdin and forwards all else thru stdout. As a side note, I used man on a DUAL 68000 UNIX Version 7 today and it did not have the problem. It appearantly looked at the device it was sending output to, saw it as a CRT, and didn't send those sequences out. I still run into the problem on BRL's man and UNIX III, and that's what clman is good for. Rick