Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 05:54:07 -0500 From: Yura Socolov <yura@matrix.binary.net> To: dkelly@hiwaay.net Cc: Jose Monteiro <jm@pluriproj.pt>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Saving a man page to a text file Message-ID: <19971009055407.23377@matrix.binary.net> In-Reply-To: <199710070324.WAA01820@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from dkelly@hiwaay.net on Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 10:24:13PM -0500 References: <3439f241.3996625@mail.leirianet.pt> <199710070324.WAA01820@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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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 -t xxxx > xxxx.ps > Or i find rman very convenient for doing just that, and also for making HTML versions of man pages on the fly. rman is i believe at ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/people/phelps/tcltk/ . An example usage would be: man blah | rman -f ASCII or nroff -man blah.3 | rman -f HTML See the rman man page that comes with it for more details... -- yu
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