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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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