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From: jfieber@cs.smith.edu (John Fieber)
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Subject: Re: man2html filter (was Re: any news as to html server?)
To: pascal@netcom.com (Richard A Childers)
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 20:37:55 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199504161627.JAA29762@netcom5.netcom.com> from "Richard A Childers" at Apr 16, 95 09:27:31 am
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Richard A Childers writes:
> I was perusing the Net last night, looking for rtf2html, and noticed that
> someone has apparently already written a man2html filter. Ask archie(l),
> or if you can't find it, let me know and I'll take a browse.

I found a few converters but all take formatted man pages as
input which means the conversion to HTML is even longer than
it takes with the normal man command.  Of course, I'm pretty
[nt]roff ignorant so I don't really know if going from man source
to html is even a reasonable option...

-john

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