From: utzoo!watmath!bstempleton
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Title: escape sequences from nroff -me
Article-I.D.: watmath.3451
Posted: Fri Sep 10 14:14:26 1982
Received: Fri Sep 10 23:56:03 1982

It is not the -me package, it is nroff's rediculous assumption that if you
don't give a terminal you are on a terminet 300 terminal.  Why Berkeley
people ever put this in, I don't know.  The least they could have done
would have been to explicitly, loudly tell you about the col program to
filter your output through.  This will get rid of those escape sequences,
which are for a terminal you probably don't have.