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From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To: groggy@iname.com, "Alain G. Fabry" <fabry@panam.edu>
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Subject: Re: Printing out man pages
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groggy@iname.com wrote:

> #!/usr/bin/sed -f
> #
> # m2a -- Man to Ascii filter.
> 
> s/.<CTRL-H>//g

Why bother, when `col -b' does that for you?

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