Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 21:46:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: John-David Childs <jdc@nterprise.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Saving a man page to a text file Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971009214358.27017B-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <19971009194037.43482@denver.net>
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On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, John-David Childs wrote: > On Thursday October 9, 1997, John McLaughlin <John.McLaughlin@Acucobol.IE> > had this to say about "Re: Saving a man page to a text file": > > > > > > 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 -P cat foo > foo.txt > > > > Nope...doesn't work. Control codes are still there. > > Neither does man -t xxxx > xxxx.ps (well, it works if you have a > postscript printer ;) > > So far, the only thing I've found that works for converting man > pages to ASCII text files is rman...available in a port > or package near you! :) man xxx | col -b > xxx.txt works for me....try it, if it doesn't work let me know, 'cause I've got it in the guide for newusers. Annelise
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