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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:53:44 -0600
From: Mark Paulus <mark DOT paulus AT wcom DOT com>
Subject: Fwd: Editor friendly man output...
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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.
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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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