Michael Grover wrote: > > I tried "man 5 interfaces > mike.txt" but there was so many control > chars that the text file was too hard to read.
Apologies for not answering your question (but others have anyway), but Why do you want it in a test file? If you're reading it on line, then less works quite well, and is the default if installed. If you want to print it, then I think the -t option will usually output Postscript which you can print nicely. man man. HTH, Richard