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Date:      Sun, 10 Mar 2002 16:57:22 -0800
From:      Mike Erickson <mee@quidquam.com>
To:        FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: man page bolding?
Message-ID:  <20020310165722.G90046@quidquam.com>
In-Reply-To: <110E3BAC-33D5-11D6-BEC3-003065715DA8@pursued-with.net>; from kevin_stevens@pursued-with.net on Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 07:15:26PM -0800
References:  <110E3BAC-33D5-11D6-BEC3-003065715DA8@pursued-with.net>

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* Kevin Stevens (kevin_stevens@pursued-with.net) wrote:
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> But what would REALLY HELP A LOT is if I could READ the @#$@#$% MAN 
> PAGES!  Both my OS X Terminal app and Win2K telnet apps black out what I 
> guess is bolded text in man - usually the switches and options.  This is 
> true with both ansi and vt100 term types set, both in the session and 
> the client.

I've had similar problems, and just resorted to binding man to 'man |
col -b' which filters out all the bold/etc.

hth,

mike

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