05-06-2002
The main issue seems to be that the text document does not hold any formatting info so whatever the default setup is on any of the windows based editors you use will result in the document being reformatted.
For example if Wordpad is set up by default to be in courier new font size 10 and print in portrait mode then when the e-mailed text file is loaded into it the document is formatted in courier new font size 10 portrait mode.
This seems to apply even if you make changes to the settings and save the document from wordpad. Notepad has less flexibility.
I suppose there may be a way to embed MS Word format commands in the text document to make this functional but I am not aware of how to do that.
I appreciate the help I have received on this board. Thanks!
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COLRM(1) BSD General Commands Manual COLRM(1)
NAME
colrm -- remove columns from a file
SYNOPSIS
colrm [start [stop]]
DESCRIPTION
The colrm utility removes selected columns from the lines of a file. A column is defined as a single character in a line. Input is read
from the standard input. Output is written to the standard output.
If only the start column is specified, columns numbered less than the start column will be written. If both start and stop columns are spec-
ified, columns numbered less than the start column or greater than the stop column will be written. Column numbering starts with one, not
zero.
Tab characters increment the column count to the next multiple of eight. Backspace characters decrement the column count by one.
ENVIRONMENT
The LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of colrm as described in environ(7).
EXIT STATUS
The colrm utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO
awk(1), column(1), cut(1), paste(1)
HISTORY
The colrm command appeared in 3.0BSD.
BSD
August 4, 2004 BSD