[gentoo-user] Re: How to get plain ascii from "man"?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-03-25, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com> wrote:
>> How do you get a plain ascii file (no backspacing, no escape
>> sequences) out of "man"?  Running it through col or colcrt
>> doesn't work anymore, because the default output contains ANSI
>> color escape sequences.
>>
>> grotty apparently outputs ANSI color escape sequences
>> regardless of whether or not the output is a tty and regardless
>> of the TERM setting.
>>
>> Who decided that everyting in the friggin' world was an ANSI
>> color crt even if it's not a tty and TERM isn't set?
>
> Edit /etc/man.conf and add -c to the commandline for TROFF,
> NROFF and JNROFF. Then "man program | col -bf" or your method
> of choice should work. There is a note in the man.conf
> comments about it.

That didn't work for me.  Does it work for you?

I also tried manually running groff using the -c flag, and that
didn't work either.

[Actually, I didn't edit /etc/man.conf -- I copied it somewhere
else and edited that file, then pointed man to the modified
file using the -C option.]

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