Walter Harms > i have added .pl 9999i and it works so far but now > i see ^h^h^h^h in front of my table. I can fix > that with "cut -b5-" or tr -d "\b" but i am con- > fused. > (i did not notice it before since i used | more to > show the output but xmessage is something differ- > ent).
Looks like these are escape sequences intended for terminals that 'know' how to treat them. You can tell groff to eliminate them and output a vanilla text file with the '-P-cbu' command-line option. XMessage is not a terminal and probably can't pro- cess them. Anton
