[plug] Formatting "man" pages for email

[Leon Brooks]

Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Richard Mortimer wrote:
> > Whenever I send a "man" page through the email system, it displays as below.
> > Is there anyway I can turn off this feature and email a man file as a
> > straight text file???

> Something like:

> man tcpdump |perl -ne 's/.^H//gi ;print'| mail -s 'MAN tcpdump' whoever at some.where.else

It looks like it should work, but didn't for me.