> > Is there a way of getting the viewer to display the
> > raw escape-codes in a file, like less -R?
>
> No. It would create mess on the screen. It's explained in "man less".
> Mess on the screen is bad in a program that can easily delete whole
> directories.
Hmm,
recent groff versions emit SGR escapes (aka ANSI color escapes) for
color support...
Werner