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I don't know if your meant to do it this way, but I always use something
like:

man bind | groff -Tascii >named.txt

(Which will display the manual page for 'named', convert it to ASCII and
dump it to the file called 'named.txt')

I'm not saying it's right, but it works for me... ;-)

Regards,

Karl Pielorz

> Frank Griffith wrote:
> 
> I thought I once saw a command line which would
> save a manpage to a file and remove the formatting
> so you could have a nice text file use later. I've looked
> through the handbook and don't seem to be able to find
> it again. Can anyone help me with this?

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