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From: ray@vantage.UUCP (Ray Liere)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Inverse Characters in man
Message-ID: <330019@vantage.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 89 15:13:19 GMT
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>Does anyone know how to turn off character highlighting for man?  It drives me 
>nuts.  For what it's worth, I'm using HP-UX 6.2.  Thanks.


We are on a Series 500, HP-UX #5.21, so this may or may not work on your system.

But ... you might try
	$man xxx|col -b|more

This seems to work fine for us -- I ran a couple of tests ...

This method does have one of the famous "hidden assumptions" -- see the
man page (!) for col. I believe the assumption is that the first character
output in an overstrike zone is the one you actually want to see.

If you have the disk space, then catman+fixman will also solve the problem!

Good luck.

Ray Liere
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