Ahouxt.171 net.cooks utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!npois!houxi!houxt!govern Tue Feb 16 11:42:34 1982 Control Characters For Most people, backspaces (xBSy) will either cause y to overprint x, or cause y to replace x (most CRTs). Thus, as long as you put UNDERLINE BS letter, it's ok. Unfortunately, many people do not get tabs set automatically, and my terminal does funny-looking, but not disastrous stuff. If you use -Tlp or -Tdumb in your mm / nroff, almost everyone can handle it. ... | col -bx will clean up tabs and backspaces. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.