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From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: printing out manual pages
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.085713.9740@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 30 Apr 91 08:57:13 GMT
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rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:

> >man foo | sed -e 's/_^H//g' -e 's/^[.//g'
> 
>  I usually just use:
>    man foo | ul -tdumb > file
> 
>  If you have 'ul', and if the 'dumb' terminal type is defined in your
> termcap or equivalent database as a totally dumb terminal, that should
> format it without fancy control characters.

How peculiar.  I just tried that, and the ul that I have (the same as
the one under bsd-sources on uunet, I think) converts the .^H into
carriage return followed by the line to overstrike it with to get the
same effect.  Probably not what the original poster wanted, but useful
nonetheless :-)
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