[99109] in RedHat Linux List
RE: man pages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Sharkey)
Thu Nov 12 11:03:08 1998
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 98 11:00:06 -0500
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From: "Scott Sharkey" <ssharkey@lanshark.com>
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> --------The original message-------
>
> From: "Markus_D=F6hr" <doehrm@aubi.de>
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> Subject: RE: man pages
>
> > Can someone please tell me if there is a utility that will
> strip the
> > formatting from man pages/files and create a standard text file?
>
> why not simply do a
>
> man [manpage] > manpage.txt
Because this usually includes backspaces and repeated characters for
emphasis or underlining. And it assumes 66 lines per page, with
footers
on each page.
-Scott
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