OT: Strange output of shell"man xyz" on OS X

[Dom]

Klaus Major <klaus at major-k.de> wrote:

> can someone explain why I get this strange output and how to
> avoid/workaround itwhen using e.g.:
> 
> ...
> put shell("man grep") into fld 1

[snip]

By the way, if all you want is to obtain a clean output of man, you may
also use ManOpen:

http://www.clindberg.org/projects/ManOpen.html

"ManOpen is a graphical interface for viewing Unix manual pages"