Re: [gentoo-user] How to get plain ascii from "man"?

2009-03-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:12:20PM +, Grant Edwards 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. I done it! And no,

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get plain ascii from "man"?

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Grant Edwards 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

[gentoo-user] How to get plain ascii from "man"?

2009-03-25 Thread Grant Edwards
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 outp