jsms: sendmail must die completes itself

Mike Touloumtzis miket@geoworks.com
Fri, 9 Jul 1999 15:49:02 -0700


On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 09:59:26PM -0700, Michael Higashi wrote:
> 
> 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. 
> 

To filter the overstriking:

man ls | col -b > ls.txt

miket