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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: NROFF output mysteries -- HELP WANTED
Message-ID: <16417@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 14 Jun 91 20:23:22 GMT
References: <17025@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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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.