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.
To get rid of the backspaces from the man command, use the "col" command:
man vi | col -b > vi.txt
Geoff "Old Unix Weenie" Allen
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