From: Brandon S. Allbery (bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org)
Date: 05/31/93 

From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: annoying bash quirk
Date: Mon, 31 May 1993 15:50:17 GMT

In article <1993May31.143505.1297@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca> jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) writes:
> On a similar topic, I guess there's no way to search a man page
>for text that's highlighted or bolded as the charater codes seen to
>interfere.

Pipe through "col -b" to remove the backspace sequences. You probably need to
install groff first.

++Brandon 

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