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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