Geoff Allen wrote:

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

Neat!

I had already fixed up BarFly to do this when opening the file
(using something like Irwin's code) but that's more tidy.

More's the point, how could I have discovered the existence
of col for myself?  The biggest problem with getting things
done in Unix seems to be that you keep hitting these barriers
where you can't figure out the solution and you just have to
go and ask someone who knows.

Phil Taylor


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