Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 15:29:26 +0100 From: Dominic Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk> To: Maury Markowitz <maury@OAAI.COM> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Man Pages Message-ID: <19990629152925.A21978@palmerharvey.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199906291415.KAA06001@OAAI.COM>; from Maury Markowitz on Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 10:20:52AM -0400 References: <199906291415.KAA06001@OAAI.COM>
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On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 10:20:52AM -0400, Maury Markowitz wrote: > > To my mind *one* of the points where FreeBSD is really good are the man > > pages. I don't have a proposal how to use this fact for promoting > FreeBSD, > > but my intention is to mention that strength of FreeBSD here. > > Sorry about another newbie Q here, but how do I suck them into a > readble text file? Is there something that will read them and spit > out RTF or even just plain text? Or is there an easy grep I can do > on them? Generally, with a man page you need to do: % man ls | col -b > textfile The col -b will strip out most of the stuff that's confusing. -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator "It's amazing how much you miss -good- Unix command line tools after you get used to Linux and the GNU ones. How Unix vendors can ship ancient shells with no job control and no cursor editing by default and still wonder why people buy NT is beyond me." -- Alan Cox -- ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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