In your message regarding Re: man page format (was readme or tutorial for
multiple users) dated Sat, 18 Aug 2001 10:41:54 -0500, David W. Tamkin said
that ...
Looks like I owe you another beer. Worked perfectly.
Very much appreciated.
You get those characters because they're really there in the file. The man
command puts out a lot of formatting designed for display on a terminal
screen, and it's not your transfer protocol that's adding them. This worked
for me:
man whatever_command | col -bx > whatever_command.txt
Not tonight dear - I'm reading the man pages <g>
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