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Date:      Wed, 27 Mar 2002 23:47:14 -0800 (PST)
From:      Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
To:        Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: setenv MANPAGER ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10203272345030.9176-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020328010218.L97853-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>

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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

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