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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 17:45:36 +0000
From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc: sharpmind2@371.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: how to convert the content of man to plain text
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On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 11:04:36PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * sharpmind2@371.net <sharpmind2@371.net> [001108 21:22] wrote:
> > man is hard to read, how to convert the content to plain text.
> 
> nroff -man <manpage>
> 

Hmm, except that the manpages are gzip'd so you need:

	gunzip -c /path/to/manpage | nroff -man

But if you redirect that into a file, then view the file, it's still full of

	N^HNA^HAM^HME^HE
     c^Hch^Hhm^Hmo^Hod^Hd - change file modes

Best to use:

	man <manpage> | col -b [> filename]

HTH

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> -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
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