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From: dstrombe@ucqais.uc.edu (pri=2 Dan Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Looking for balanced critique of Perl
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Date: 29 Jun 90 12:16:53 GMT
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In article <814@ehviea.ine.philips.nl>, leo@ehviea.ine.philips.nl (Leo de Wit) writes:
> Unfortunately, the very keyword you're looking for is often underlined,
> or typed over multiple times, so it contains embedded backspaces (and
> possible underscores or repetitions) in the manual text. I had a few
> bad experiences with that lately. There really should be an option of
> the pager to compare modulo underlining/fat printing.
> 
>    Leo.

I don't know if this is possible on all systems, but:

	man ls | col -b | pg

seems to work nicely for me on a couple different Sys V machines.

- Dan Stromberg              ...!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uccba!ucqais!dstrombe