jsms: sendmail must die completes itself

Seth David Schoen schoen@loyalty.org
Thu, 8 Jul 1999 21:57:51 -0700


Michael Higashi writes:

> On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, David Welton wrote:
> 
> > Or simply:
> > 
> > man ls > ls.txt
> 
> Yeah, I've tried that. I once tried converting a whole bunch of man pages
> using that technique, and thought it was working when I looked at the text
> files on the screen. Then I found out that when I brought them up in vi
> that the escape codes for formatting the text for the screen were embedded
> in the files. 

Are you sure that they weren't just ^Hs?

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