Aloha,
Brad Barber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote on
Tuesday, March 27, 2001 4:37 PM:
> The unprintables are backspaces for enhancing the screen display of
> the page. For straight ascii text, Unix in a Nutshell
> recommends using
> man find | col -b
> This is what I use on Unix systems. It works well.
It may be a little off topic, but you may use the following one-liner
instead of 'col':
perl -wpe 's/.\010//g'
HTH,
Arjen Bax
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