[plug] Formatting "man" pages for email

[The Thought Assassin]

On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Ian Kent wrote:
> > > man tcpdump |perl -ne 's/.^H//gi ;print'| mail -s 'MAN tcpdump' whoever at some.where.else
> 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 ...
Or, perhaps more easily, insert it the same way from the command line.

-Greg