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Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 10:27:34 -0500
From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>
To: Jose Monteiro <jm@pluriproj.pt>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Saving a man page to a text file
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On Oct 10, 1997 at 02:16:22PM +0000, Jose Monteiro wrote:
> How can I save the contents os a man page to a text file without any
> escape codes included?
> 
> I tried 
> 
> $man xxxxx > xxxxx.txt 

man xxxx | colcrt > xxx.txt

--
Jonathan