Re: [Groff] plain ascii w/o control chars

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 07:32:44PM -0500, Alejandro Lopez-Valencia wrote:
> Colin Watson <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Use the -Tascii switch to nroff (or groff), and pipe the output through
> > 'col -b' to turn bold and underline formatting into plain text.
> 
> Now, for those of us impaired with no real UNIX on sight, where can we
> find the source code to comp0ile it ourselves? 
> 
> Mind you, GNU textutils *does not* have a col command included.
> Perhaps BSDish systems do?

My /usr/bin/col comes from bsdmainutils, which is a rather
Debian-specific package but presumably comes from BSD. I guess you could
get it from one of their CVS repositories.

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Colin Watson                                  address@hidden