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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to get plain ascii from "man"?
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On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Grant Edwards <grante@visi.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.