On 2009-03-25, Paul Hartman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:
>> How do you get a plain ascii file (no backspacing, no escape
>> sequences) out of "man"? Running it through col or colcrt
>> doesn't work anymore, because the default output contains ANSI
>> color escape sequences.
>>
>> grotty apparently outputs ANSI color escape sequences
>> regardless of whether or not the output is a tty and regardless
>> of the TERM setting.
>>
>> Who decided that everyting in the friggin' world was an ANSI
>> color crt even if it's not a tty and TERM isn't set?
>
> Edit /etc/man.conf and add -c to the commandline for TROFF,
> NROFF and JNROFF. Then "man program | col -bf" or your method
> of choice should work. There is a note in the man.conf
> comments about it.
That didn't work for me. Does it work for you?
I also tried manually running groff using the -c flag, and that
didn't work either.
[Actually, I didn't edit /etc/man.conf -- I copied it somewhere
else and edited that file, then pointed man to the modified
file using the -C option.]
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