From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 2 12:33:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailf.telia.com (mailf.telia.com [194.22.194.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F327737B503 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 12:33:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ents02 (t5o90p6.telia.com [213.64.7.6]) by mailf.telia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA17149; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 21:33:38 +0200 (CEST) From: "James A Wilde" To: "Murray" , Subject: RE: how to delete bold from man pages? Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 21:33:58 +0200 Message-ID: <000801c02ca7$b5af77b0$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 In-Reply-To: <20001002125324.A30050@converging.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Murray > > Is there a way to save the man page without the bold and highlight > affect? Alternatively, is there a w2k/windoze utility that can be used > to strip unwanted characters from a file? PFE (Programmers File Editor) fulfills your alternative solution. But don't ask me where you would get it nowadays. It used to be a popular item on cover diskettes when covers had diskettes as opposed to CDs. mvh/regards James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message