Formatting man pages -> txt file
David Kelly
dkelly at hiwaay.net
Fri Oct 12 06:48:58 PDT 2007
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 09:14:07AM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to get a man page in .txt format.
>
> What I tried was "man man > man.txt", but this gives me the man pages
> with many control char.
>
> How can I get a man page to be formatted to a regular .txt file?
Others have already said. What I like is "man -t man > man.ps" to create
a Postscript file. Prints beautifully.
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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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