On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 05:05:44PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 01 October 2021 12:43:00 Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > man lilo > manLILO
> did exactly what I wanted it to do. Thank you Cindy. ;o) On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 05:07:37PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 01 October 2021 13:58:20 Lee wrote: > > man --ascii man > /tmp/man.txt > Cindy's suggestion worked. Thanks Lee. *sigh* Do you know how frustrating this is? "Hey guys, I want a thing. I won't give any useful details, though. Just make this thing for me. I want you all to guess what I want, and I'll look through the answers, and pick the one I like the most. You're all going to be my personal army of monkeys typing on the keyboards. One of you will produce Shakespeare for me." Even now, after you've declared a winner, we can still only *guess* what the contest rules were. And the decision is nonsensical, because you've declared one winner (Cindy) when the second-place runner up (Lee) gave a command that gives *exactly* the same result as Cindy's command. unicorn:~$ man ls > manls unicorn:~$ man --ascii ls > manls2 unicorn:~$ ls -l manls manls2 -rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 8299 Oct 1 17:09 manls -rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 8299 Oct 1 17:10 manls2 unicorn:~$ cmp manls manls2 unicorn:~$ We still don't know why you want this. I guess we'll never know.
