02-05-2002
underline character in vi editor
I want to print a man page for a command in unix, this is what I did
man command > command.txt
but when I view the output file command.txt I found there are lot of _^H characters that in the man page are actually underline character, how can I replace this _^H with underline character?
Thank you for any advise!
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eqnchar
eqnchar(5) Standards, Environments, and Macros eqnchar(5)
NAME
eqnchar - special character definitions for eqn
SYNOPSIS
eqn /usr/share/lib/pub/eqnchar filename | troff options
neqn /usr/share/lib/pub/eqnchar filename | troff options
DESCRIPTION
The eqnchar command contains nroff(1) and troff(1) character definitions for constructing characters that are not available on the Graphic
Systems typesetter. These definitions are primarily intended for use with eqn(1) and neqn(1). It contains definitions for the following
characters:
To view the special characters, see the online man page on docs.sun.com or a print copy.
A table that shows the nroff and troff character definitions used by eqn
FILES
/usr/share/lib/pub/eqnchar
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWdoc |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
eqn(1), nroff(1), troff(1), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 12 Jul 2002 eqnchar(5)