tbl, beginner's difficulty with 'box'

[Steven List @ Benetics Corp, MT.View, CA]

> When I give a 'box' directive in the tbl input, it prints the vertical
> lines of the box one at a time, at the BOTTOM of the page, AFTER it
> has printed everything else.
> I tried the examples given by McGilton and Morgan on page 405ff
> and had no better luck.
> What I am doing wrong?
> 
> Bernd <bear-nd>
> UUCP: ...!ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcc12!wa371,   ARPA: sdcsvax!sdcc12!wa371 at nosc
>             *** hooray for USENET ***

try the following:

   tbl <file> | nroff -Tlp | col > <outfile>

the -T option to nroff indicates the printer type (lp is default line
printer).  Col takes all the repositioning commands generated by tbl
and massages it all together to make something approaching a readable
document.
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