On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Jeff Bigler wrote:
> Much simpler, using vi as an example, would be:
>
> man vi | cat > vi.txt
Maybe you have a super-cat installed on your system,
but my cats pass all those backspace sequences through,
so the above line would be simply equivalent with:
man vi > vi.txt
which does not do the job.
However, the simple program that I wrote takes care of
it.
Groeten,
Irwin Oppenheim
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