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Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 19:40:38 -0600
From: John-David Childs <jdc@nterprise.net>
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Subject: Re: Saving a man page to a text file
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On Thursday October  9, 1997, John McLaughlin <John.McLaughlin@Acucobol.IE>
 had this to say about "Re: Saving a man page to a text file":

> 
>  > On Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 10:24:13PM -0500, dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote:
> >> > How can I save the contents os a man page to a text file without
> >> any > escape codes included?
> 
> 	How about:
> 
> 		man -P cat foo > foo.txt
> 

Nope...doesn't work.  Control codes are still there.

Neither does man -t xxxx > xxxx.ps (well, it works if you have a
postscript printer ;)

So far, the only thing I've found that works for converting man
pages to ASCII text files is rman...available in a port
or package near you! :)

I've also used the "Attached-to-Ansi" (aka Desktop) Printer  feature
in Pine to print man pages directly to my desktop printer (even when
I'm telnetted to a remote system).

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