On Friday, July 2, "Denis A. Doroshenko" wrote: > > you may use "sed -e 's:^H_::g' -e 's:.^H::g'" in pipe to do the trick, > that ^H is backspace (^V^H in pdksh command line)... > there's also one utility doing this, but i can't remember its name... I tend to use 'col -b' --Toby.