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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 07:55:41 -0600
From: Mark Paulus <mark DOT paulus AT wcom DOT com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Editor friendly man output...
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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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