Tim asked,
| One last question: I ran man procmail > procmail.txt which copied the man
| pages to my home dir. I then FTP'd procmail.txt to my win 98 computer, but
| it is full of Ctrl characters. How can I get the Man pages in a text file
| format? I've tried ascii & binary transfers and both methods end up with
| ctrl characters.
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
You'll lose the underlining and bolding, but you probably won't need them.
As Wash has said, you'll also get just LFs as ends-of-line, but if you FTP
it in ASCII mode, FTP should convert them to CR/LF.
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