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Terminal Tip: Output man pages as plain text with col

by Erica Sadun (Apr 19th, 2007)

Ever try to open a man page in TextEdit using man | open -f? You end up with the kind of unreadable repeated characters shown here. This all dates back to the days of dot matrix and daisy wheel printing when the only way you could produce bold type was to repeatedly print characters. Fortunately, ...

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