[99165] in RedHat Linux List
RE: man pages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Cifreo)
Thu Nov 12 16:23:26 1998
From: Eric Cifreo <Eric@kazan.com>
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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 15:23:05 -0600
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Vidiot [mailto:brown@ftms.COM]
>>Sent: Thursday, November 12, 1998 10:25 am
>>
>>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?
>
>Ya, it is called nroff. Groff will work as well.
>
>MB
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OK,
Let me piggyback on this one:
How do you make a man page from a text file? troff, right.
Is there a command line flag to do this? Is there a utility
out there? From the man page, it looks like troff is it's
own little formatting language...
Thanks,
Eric Cifreo
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