Am 02.03.2011 17:32, schrieb Anton Shepelev:
> Walter Harms
> 
>> i have added .pl 9999i and it works so far but now
>> i see ^h^h^h^h in front of my  table.  I  can  fix
>> that  with "cut -b5-" or  tr -d "\b" but i am con-
>> fused.
>> (i did not notice it before since i used | more to
>> show  the output but xmessage is something differ-
>> ent).
> 
> Looks like these are escape sequences  intended  for
> terminals  that  'know'  how  to treat them. You can
> tell groff to eliminate them and  output  a  vanilla
> text file with the '-P-cbu' command-line option.
> 
> XMessage  is  not a terminal and probably can't pro-
> cess them.
> 
> Anton
> 

does not work for me, the ^h are still produced

re,
 wh

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