It's crude, but 'man -t manpage | pstotext' will do this (there are probably better ways using groff, but this comes to mind).
Bob On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 12:59:17PM -0500, Marc Mongeon wrote: > Is there a quick and painless way to translate the output from > man into plain text? > > e.g: > $ man man | magic-filter > $ magic-bin /usr/man/man8/man.8 > $ man --magic-switch man > > Thank you. > > Marc Mongeon > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
