[TUHS] getting nroff to underline in v6,v5

[John Cowan]

Mark Longridge scripsit:

> Maybe there was the ability to use overstrike characters on the teletype?

That's inherent in the nature of printing terminals: 'X', BS, '_' worked
fine on all such terminals to produce an underlined X.  Later it was
found to be better to use '_', BS, 'X', which looked the same on actual
TTYs or equivalents (LA34/36) and was greatly superior on video terminals.

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