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From: wa371@sdcc12.UUCP (wa371)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: How to view the output of a boxed table on a crt or line printer:
Message-ID: <325@sdcc12.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-May-85 01:30:18 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 29 01:30:18 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Jun-85 12:11:45 EDT
Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center
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Keywords: tbl box

I recently asked for help in viewing the output of tbl(1) on a crt or line
printer.  My difficulty was that vertical lines of a boxed table were being
printed AFTER the rest of the table.  Additionally a flock of control
characters were giving my terminal hiccups.
After experimenting with various suggestions (thanks, everyone) I found 
that the following command seems to give the cleanest results (under 4.2bsd):
	 'tbl filename | nroff -ms | colcrt | more'

Somewhat verbose, unfortunately.

Bernd
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