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From: paul@vixie.UUCP (Paul Vixie Esq)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Looking for Boldface/Underline Filter
Message-ID: <781@vixie.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 88 07:56:17 GMT
References: <2941@killer.UUCP>
Reply-To: paul@vixie.UUCP (Paul Vixie Esq)
Followup-To: comp.sources.d
Organization: Vixie Enterprises, San Francisco
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Keywords: boldface underline nroff backspace cr

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 [...] Does anybody know of such a filter, in C source?

I've got just what you're looking for -- I wrote it for my printer's NLQ
mode, wherein the printer was shaking back and forth enough to fall off its
stand :-(.  (All those bidirectional smarts, and they still don't have the
backspace in the prefetch scheme...)

Anyway, I just posted my quick hack to comp.sources.misc.  If it isn't so
ugly and unreadable that BSA rejects it, you ought to see it pretty soon.
-- 
Paul A Vixie Esq
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