How to strip edit characters

[Jeff Beadles]

In <6665 at aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> ejmag at aplcen (Magnusson Eric 859-4680) writes:

...
>Is there a "shell" way to remove the backspace characters, yet retain
>the text in its final form?
...

Well, for systems that have it, the "col" command works just fine.  Use it as a
pipeline, ie:

col -b < input_yuch_o_file > neat_o_file


	-Jeff
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