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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Looking for Boldface/Underline Filter
Keywords: boldface underline nroff backspace cr
Message-ID: <7125@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 18 Jan 88 02:20:12 GMT
References: <2941@killer.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2941@killer.UUCP> wnp@killer.UUCP (Wolf Paul) writes:
>Therefore I am looking for a filter which will convert backspace sequences
>into overstruck lines, like so:

The copyn() module used by the lpserver in BRL's MDQS spooler package
performs such operations.  I'm mailing wnp a copy..