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From: pfalstad@phoenix.princeton.edu (Paul Falstad)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: printing out manual pages
Keywords: man
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Date: 29 Apr 91 04:07:22 GMT
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c60b-1eq@e260-1g.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) wrote:
>In article <1991Apr28.222052.19789@agate.berkeley.edu> raymond@ursa.berkeley.edu (Raymond Yee) writes:
>>How do I print out output from the 'man' program or store 'man' output
>>in a file without having all the extraneous control characters?
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>  nroff -man foo.man

Doesn't work for me.  I still get _^H's.

   nroff -man -Tman foo.man | sed 's/_^H//g'

will get most of them...

   nroff -man -Tman foo.man | col -b

will get all of them, if you have col.

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