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Subject:Re: Bold text in man pages From:<mcollier -at- maryland -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:21:18 -0400 (EDT)
Thanks Mike. I got a reply from Laura Lemay who also suggested
> "man ssh" doesn't produce text. It produces terminal output. That
> output includes control characters to produce boldface in a terminal
> emulator. Its duplicate characters to you, I guess; it looks just fine
> to me. :)
>
> The command you're looking for is "nroff -man ssh" That'll give you
> plain text.
I'm not sure if I have nroff on OS X but I'm sure I can get it if needed
and I'll try your suggestion as well this evening.
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