How to strip edit characters

[Larry Wall]

In article <6665 at aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> ejmag at aplcen (Magnusson Eric 859-4680) writes:
: Occasionally I receive mail from others which contains editing
: characters such as backspace(^H).  When this text is printed to the
: screen it appears fine, but when I try to edit it, I see all the edit
: characters like sew^H^Ho (instead of "so").
: 
: Is there a "shell" way to remove the backspace characters, yet retain
: the text in its final form?

Try filtering through either of

	col -b
	perl -pe '1 while s/.\010//'

The col command may do extra transmogrifications to the text that you
don't want.  The perl command may do extra transmogrifications to your
mind that you don't want.

Larry