Marc Chantreux:
> > > * is there a way to ask man to deliver pure (non-formatted) text ?
> > Pipe its output through "col -b".
>
> what is the gain of using col over fmt ?
It's the designated tool for the job. That fmt also happens to
replace sequences character1-backspace-character2 with character2
is more of a lucky coincidence.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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