Subject: Re: Fwd: Editor friendly man output...
From: Heinz-Juergen Oertel <[email-masked]>
To: Mark Paulus <[email-masked]>
Cc: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:56:53 +0200

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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