On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 22:26:06 -0700, collver1@attbi.com wrote:
> > 
> > man indent | sed s/.^H//
> > 
> > To get that ^H, press Control-V, then Control-H.
> 
> I typed s/.^H//g

Ah.  ^V has been around since, what, the predawn of ed(1)?  Thanks.  

For the record, sed on 1.5 doesn't have -E.  

Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org> wrote:
> But as for what I'd do,
>  man indent | col -b

And thanks to you and Perry for col(1).  That's the ticket.

Regards, 

--jkl