[plug] Formatting "man" pages for email

[Ian Kent]

On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Leon Brooks wrote:

> 
> > 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.
>

Could it be the ^H is actually one control character not two individual
characters.

If this is so then insert it in vi by <ctrl>v<ctrl>h ...

--
   ,-._|\    Ian Kent
  /      \   Perth, Western Australia
  *_.--._/   E-mail: ian.kent at pobox.com
        v    Web: http://pobox.com/~ian.kent