From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Mar 18 08:31:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA06531 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 08:31:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay1.telekom.ru (relay1.telekom.ru [194.190.195.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA06505 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 08:30:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from laskavy@gambit.msk.su) From: laskavy@gambit.msk.su Received: from Peru.gambit.msk.su by relay1.telekom.ru (8.8.7/1.48) id TAA21411; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 19:30:30 +0300 (MSK) Received: by Peru.gambit.msk.su (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id TAA25999; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 19:30:27 +0300 Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 19:30:27 +0300 Message-Id: <199803181630.TAA25999@Peru.gambit.msk.su> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-URL: mailto:freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: Lynx, Version 2.8rel.2 Subject: Add to FAQ? How to produce an ASCII man page? Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dear documentation project members! I think man TOPIC | col -b > TOPIC.man.ascii is a FAQ People are moving from their DOS/Windows and for the first time they are reading UNIX man pages in their old systems. Laskavy@#UNIX (Undernet) >Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 23:25:13 -0600 >From: John-David Childs >To: Annelise Anderson >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Saving a man page to a text file >Message-ID: <19971010232513.46633@denver.net> >In-Reply-To: ; >from Annelise Anderson on Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 09:46:09PM -0700 >References: <19971009194037.43482@denver.net> 17B-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> >On Thursday October 9, 1997, Annelise Anderson > had this to say about "Re: Saving a man page to a text file": > >> >> >> >> man xxx | col -b > xxx.txt >> >> works for me....try it, if it doesn't work let me know, 'cause >> I've got it in the guide for newusers. >> >> Annelise >> > >Works great! > > >-- >John-David Childs (JC612) Enterprise Internet Solutions >System Administrator @denver.net/Internet-Coach/@ronan.net > & Network Engineer 1031 S. Parker Rd. #I-8 Denver, CO 80231 >As of this^H^H^H^H next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message