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From: gerard@Bull.NL (GerardJan Vinkesteyn)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: *.guide files
Message-ID: <3870@nlbull.Bull.NL>
Date: 13 Sep 90 17:12:22 GMT
References: <836@ki.UUCP> <1990Sep7.001833.22781@DSI.COM> <844@ki.UUCP> <000025W@cdis-1.compu.com>
Organization: Bull Netherlands, Amsterdam, NL
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In article <000025W@cdis-1.compu.com>, tanner@cdis-1.compu.com (Dr. T. Andrews) writes:
> In article <3839@nlbull.Bull.NL> gerard@Bull.NL (GerardJan Vinkesteyn) writes:
> ) [ includes text mentioning ESC sequences in nroff output ]
> ) [ nroff default is for tty37; shows reverse motion as esc sequences ]
> ) To overcome it use one of the others in /usr/lib/term
> No.  To overcome it, pipe the output through "col".  That way, you
> should get output much closer to what was intended.
> 

That is correct, I completely forgot about this.
But at least I explained how this stuff works with nroff.
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