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ref: 1bab993af3da2ba2ee9e84d8602c9ae67f7c58d1
parent: f6706e1759c3e16f6f710ac897b7aa1cb5e22fa4
author: kvik <kvik@a-b.xyz>
date: Sat Apr 18 19:07:22 EDT 2020

ep: clear out backspaces from the input

I often use ep to open formatted manual pages from different
ugly places which insist on sprinkling more backspaces into
a text-worth than there's text itself.

--- a/bin/ep
+++ b/bin/ep
@@ -18,5 +18,5 @@
 	usage
 
 file = /tmp/ep.`{salt}
-cat >$file
+col -b >$file
 plumb -d edit $file