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From: frank@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Frank G. Fiamingo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Inverse Characters in man
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Date: 20 Jul 89 17:58:24 GMT
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You could try sending it through a filter to remove
the control characters.  Here's a shell script that
I use to convert a man page to straight ascii.  If 
this doesn't work for you, you could probably modify
it such that it will.


Frank
frank@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu

#! /bin/sh
# Program to convert manual file to ascii printable form
#
case "$#" in
0)
# no command line parameters
# so obtain the file interactively
#
echo "Enter man command name: \c"
read file
;;
*)
# process the file from the command line parameters
#
file=$1
;;
esac
#
man - $file > /tmp/man.$$
sed -e 's/.//g' /tmp/man.$$ 
rm /tmp/man.$$

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P.S. The controls characters may not show up on your screen.
The next ot last line should be:
sed -e 's/.^H//g' /tmp/man.$$
where      ^^  represents the appropriate control character.