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Article #527using tbl program for crt terminals
From: Senior Dwarf
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1985 05:22
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1985 05:22
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Recently I was struggling to make a boxed table come out right on a
crt and/or simple matrix printer with the tbl(1) program. It seems
that tbl tries to back up the paper and draw the box after printing
the text unless the following command line is used. (I wonder why
it was not designed to print the box at the same time as the text.)
These are the two solutions that worked for me:
1. tbl file | nroff -ms | colcrt
2. tbl -TX file | nroff -ms | col
Cheers,
Bernd <bear-nd> *** hooray for USENET ***
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site sdcc12.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcc3!sdcc12!wa371 From: wa371@sdcc12.UUCP (Senior Dwarf) Newsgroups: net.text Subject: using tbl program for crt terminals Message-ID: <370@sdcc12.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 01:22:03 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcc12.370 Posted: Wed Jun 12 01:22:03 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Jun-85 06:00:09 EDT Organization: Snow White's Electronic Cottage, San Diego Lines: 12 Keywords: tbl