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RE: col missing from cygwin
- To: "Brad Barber" <bradb at atg dot com>
- Subject: RE: col missing from cygwin
- From: "Kevin Wright" <kevin at wright dot org>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:49:35 -0800
- Cc: "Cygwin-Mailing-List" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Brad,
According to my notes, I got the col.exe file from:
http://www10.u-page.so-net.ne.jp/fa2/riue-s/files/util-cygwin-1.0.tar.gz
The create a printable man page, I do this (similar to what you said):
man ls | col -b > ls.man
Hope this helps,
--Kevin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Barber [mailto:bradb@atg.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 6:37 AM
> To: Kevin Wright; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: RE: col missing from cygwin
>
>
> At 06:23 PM Monday 3/26/2001, you wrote:
> >Brad,
> >
> >If you look in the file /usr/lib/man.conf, you will find the
> >following note:
> >
> ># Useful paths - note that COL should not be defined when
> ># NROFF is defined as "groff -Tascii" or "groff -Tlatin1";
> ># not only is it superfluous, but it actually damages the output.
> >#
> >
> >This is the reason that the path for col is commented out. I have
> >tried with col (that I compiled) and didn't see any improvement,
> >so I commented out again.
>
> Thanks Larry and Kevin for your replies.
>
> 'col' is not compiled for the cygwin binary distribution. I don't know
> what package it belongs to.
>
> If I run
> man find >x.txt
> and look at x.txt with Notepad, I get
>
> FIND(1L) FIND(1L)
>
> NNAAMMEE
> find - search for files in a directory hierarchy
>
> SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS
> ffiinndd [path...] [expression]
>
> DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
> This manual page documents the GNU version of ffiinndd. ffiinndd
> <clip>
>
> The unprintables are backspaces for enhancing the screen display of
> the page. For straight ascii text, Unix in a Nutshell recommends using
> man find | col -b
> This is what I use on Unix systems. It works well.
>
> I was not able to find an option for 'man' that generates
> straight ascii text.
>
> --Brad (tcsh)
>
>
> >--Kevin
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com
> >> [mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Brad Barber
> >> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 2:56 PM
> >> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> >> Subject: col missing from cygwin
> >>
> >>
> >> I noticed that the 'col' command is missing from cygwin.
> >> It is useful for turning man pages into text files without backspaces,
> >> e.g.,
> >> man find | col -b
> >>
> >> This is recommended by Unix in a Nutshell.
> >>
> >> --Brad (tcsh)
> >>
> >>
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