Alan Silverstein <ajs at frii.com> writes: > For viewing a manual entry with vi, I still go through col -b on the way > to a file. hmm ... before col -b, most of us used (and I still do): !!man <YourSelection> 1,$s/.^V^H//g where ^V^H is ctl-v (or whatever your tty input escape is) followed by ctl-h. John