c

col(1)

col(1)

tbl ®lename nroff -man col more -s

(very similar to the usual man(1) command). This command allows vertical bars and outer boxes to be printed for tables. The ®le is run through the tbl preprocessor, and the output is then piped through nroff, formatting the output using the -manmacros. The formatted output is then piped through col, which sets up the vertical bars and aligns the columns in the ®le. The ®le is ®nally piped through the more command, which prints the output to the screen with underlining and highlighting substituted for italic and bold typefaces. The -soption deletes excess space from the output so that multiple blank lines are not printed to the screen.

SEE ALSO

nroff(1), tbl(1), ul(1), man(5).

NOTES

The input format accepted by col matches the output produced by nroff with either the -T37or - Tlp options. Use -T37(and the -foption of col) if the ultimate disposition of the output of col is a device that can interpret half-line motions, and -Tlpotherwise.

BUGS

Cannot back up more than 128 lines. Cannot back up across page boundaries.

There is a maximum limit for the number of characters, including backspaces and overstrikes, on a line. The maximum limit is at least 800 characters.

Local vertical motions that would result in backing up over the ®rst line of the document are ignored. As a result, the ®rst line must not have any superscripts.

WARNINGS

This command is likely to be withdrawn from X/Open standards. Applications using this command might not be portable to other vendors' systems.

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE col: SVID2, SVID3, XPG2, XPG3

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HP-UX Release 11i: December 2000