printing out manual pages

[Neil Rickert]

In article <16958 at chaph.usc.edu> jeenglis at alcor.usc.edu (Joe English) writes:
>c60b-1eq at e260-1g.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) writes:
>>In article <1991Apr28.222052.19789 at agate.berkeley.edu> raymond at 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?
>
>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.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert at cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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