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From: John McLaughlin <John.McLaughlin@Acucobol.IE>
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Subject: Re: Saving a man page to a text file 
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Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 13:53:38 +0100
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 > On Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 10:24:13PM -0500, dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote:
>> > How can I save the contents os a man page to a text file without
>> any > escape codes included?

	How about:

		man -P cat foo > foo.txt

John