suppressing special output from troff -Tascii

1997-11-24 Thread Dale Scheetz
I am trying to transfer some troff files to straight ascii, but I keep getting intermixed control characters and extra characters in its attempt to deal with bold, underscore, and other format issues. Is there a way to get troff to not do these formatting steps? As an alternative how can I get sed

Re: suppressing special output from troff -Tascii

1997-11-24 Thread Bruce Perens
Run col. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: suppressing special output from troff -Tascii

1997-11-24 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: Run col. Thanks! That was exactly what I needed! Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road

Re: suppressing special output from troff -Tascii

1997-11-24 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I am trying to transfer some troff files to straight ascii, but I keep getting intermixed control characters and extra characters in its attempt to deal with bold, underscore, and other format issues. Is there a way to get troff to not do these formatting

Re: suppressing special output from troff -Tascii

1997-11-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: Is there a way to get troff to not do these formatting steps? As an alternative how can I get sed or some other text manipulator to take the three character sequence characterXcontrol-HcharacterX into simply characterX? perl -pie s/X\cHX/X/g will