The cause of the unwanted escape sequences in the text output is that linuxdoc uses groff for text output. groff uses grotty as a post processor and grotty by default puts the escape seqences there per the man page for grotty. A fix is to pass the -c option to grotty to disable this. But how to do this when groff is called? I can't find out how to do this from the man page or the info page for groff. If I substitute nroff -c for groff, the problem is fixed but using nroff may break something else. nroff uses the option -T... while groff uses -T ... (the difference is a space after -T). So I had to change this too when I substituted nroff. There are likely some other differences. One could also try using troff in a pipeline with grotty to enable the appropriate options to be given to grotty.
I really don't know Perl so I was lucky to discover possible solutions. David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]