Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 13:32:18 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Frank Griffith <frankg@idfw.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Man Pages to Text Files Message-ID: <355AE452.4B2F4063@tdx.co.uk> References: <001501bd7f2a$a08b9c60$0200a8c0@fast1>
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I don't know if your meant to do it this way, but I always use something like: man bind | groff -Tascii >named.txt (Which will display the manual page for 'named', convert it to ASCII and dump it to the file called 'named.txt') I'm not saying it's right, but it works for me... ;-) Regards, Karl Pielorz > Frank Griffith wrote: > > I thought I once saw a command line which would > save a manpage to a file and remove the formatting > so you could have a nice text file use later. I've looked > through the handbook and don't seem to be able to find > it again. Can anyone help me with this? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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