Annotation of 43BSDReno/usr.bin/ul/ul.1, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)ul.1        6.2 (Berkeley) 5/7/86
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH UL 1 "May 7, 1986"
        !             8: .UC 4
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: ul \- do underlining
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .B ul
        !            13: [
        !            14: .B \-i
        !            15: ] [
        !            16: .B \-t
        !            17: .I terminal
        !            18: ]
        !            19: [
        !            20: .I name
        !            21: \&...
        !            22: ]
        !            23: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            24: .I Ul
        !            25: reads the named files (or standard input if none are given)
        !            26: and translates occurrences of underscores to the sequence
        !            27: which indicates underlining for the terminal in use, as specified
        !            28: by the environment variable
        !            29: TERM.
        !            30: The
        !            31: .B \-t
        !            32: option overrides the terminal kind specified in the environment.
        !            33: The file
        !            34: .I /etc/termcap
        !            35: is read to determine the appropriate sequences for underlining.
        !            36: If the terminal is incapable of underlining, but is capable of
        !            37: a standout mode then that is used instead.
        !            38: If the terminal can overstrike,
        !            39: or handles underlining automatically,
        !            40: .I ul
        !            41: degenerates to
        !            42: .IR cat (1).
        !            43: If the terminal cannot underline, underlining is ignored.
        !            44: .PP
        !            45: The
        !            46: .B \-i
        !            47: option causes
        !            48: .I ul
        !            49: to indicate underlining onto by a separate line containing appropriate
        !            50: dashes `\-'; this is useful when you want to look at the underlining
        !            51: which is present in an
        !            52: .I nroff
        !            53: output stream on a crt-terminal.
        !            54: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            55: man(1), nroff(1), colcrt(1)
        !            56: .SH BUGS
        !            57: .I Nroff
        !            58: usually outputs a series of backspaces and underlines intermixed
        !            59: with the text to indicate underlining.  No attempt is made to optimize
        !            60: the backward motion.

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