Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/06/23/09:56:10
Actually, I don't have them installed right now. I had cygwin
installed, (and subscribed to this list) but had some problems,
and then got too busy to do anything about it. So, I removed
it. However, I still follow the list (mostly very passively). And I
play with Linux @ home, so I remember some things from there.
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:56:53 +0200, Heinz-Juergen Oertel wrote:
>Mark,
>
>You have the source of the man pages at /usr/man.
>Why not using this ?
>
> Heinz
>
>
>Mark Paulus wrote:
>>
>> Check the man page for man. Some variations of man (specifically the gnu version,
>> I believe) include an option to remove formatting, obviating the necessity for piping
>> through col -b.
>> ==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE==================
>>
>> On most Unix systems:
>> man <subject> | col -b >/tmp/manpage
>> will create a nice editor friendly file that can be perused within your
>> favorite editor app.
>> There is no "col" command packaged with CYGWIN - is there a readily
>> available alternative that comes with the package?
>>
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>
> Heinz-Jrgen Oertel
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