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