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From: dave@lsuc.uucp (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Looking for Boldface/Underline Filter
Message-ID: <1988Jan20.124318.18760@lsuc.uucp>
Date: 20 Jan 88 17:43:16 GMT
References: <2941@killer.UUCP> <889@cblpe.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: speed(1) -- goes back to v6 UNIX

In article <2941@killer.UUCP> wnp@killer.UUCP (Wolf Paul) writes:
>Nroff by default produces boldface and underlines by means of backspacing.
>My printer does not take to that too kindly, especially in NLQ mode.
>Therefore I am looking for a filter which will convert backspace sequences
>into overstruck lines, like so:
>
>  "_^HT_^Hh_^Hi_^Hs _^Hi_^Hs _^Hu_^Hn_^Hd_^He_^Hr_^Hl_^Hi_^Hn_^He_^Hd.\r\n"
>
>should be converted to
>
>  "This is underlined.\r____ __ __________ \r\n"

We have a utility which does exactly that, called speed(1).
It was written by Tom Duff (now alice!td) in 1976 at U of Toronto,
and modified by Henry Spencer (now utzoo!henry) in 1978.
It ran on v6 UNIX so it should run on anything (though you might
get some warnings from your compiler about "old-fashioned" things...
I'll mail it to anyone who wants it.

David Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
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