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From: lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin
Subject: Re: Bug in `.ux' macro in 2.11 doc/tmac.n USENET TROFF macros ; fix
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Date: Sun, 28-Dec-86 16:46:42 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 28 16:46:42 1986
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In article <305@rlgvax.UUCP>, dennis@rlgvax.UUCP (Dennis Bednar) writes:
< Anybody know what ESCAPE 8 and ESCAPE 9 sequences are in nroff
< output?  I noticed these in some nroff output of the install
< guide in the doc directory.

ESC[89] are used to represent vertical half line motions on the
line printer. Piping the output through col(1) will fix things...

< Also, if I remember correctly, I saw one instance of a control-k
< character in nroff output in one of the 2.11 man pages. Again,
< any comments?

The ^K stuff represents vertical motion indexes (ie vertical tabs).
Again, col should deal with this...
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Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM)      Systems Group - A Div. of Nexus Computing Corp.  

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