On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Hans Fugal said:
> Or FXRuby, as attached. (15 lines for basic functionality, including
> whitespace)
> 
> On a related question, how do you get man to not do this type of thing:
> N^HNA^HAM^HME^HE
> 
> Otherwise a simple 'display STDIN in a scrollable window' won't do much
> good for manpages.

To strip out the backspaces, you can use something like this (found at 
the very bottom of the manpage for man):

man foo | col -b

Frank
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