Looking for balanced critique of Perl

[pri=2 Dan Stromberg]

In article <814 at ehviea.ine.philips.nl>, leo at 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