From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 28 0: 0: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A771F37B41A for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 00:00:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2S7lEd09189; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 23:47:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 23:47:14 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Peter Leftwich Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: setenv MANPAGER ? In-Reply-To: <20020328010218.L97853-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Peter Leftwich wrote: > Is there an environment variable or an nroff/groff/troff/Xroff etc command > that "man something" can be piped through to reduce the manpage to simple > text? That is, how can a user "flatten" a man page of all its bold type? Pipe it through col -b. For example, to create a flat text file of the chmod manual page: man chmod | col -b > chmod.txt Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message