On Friday 01 October 2021 17:17:53 Greg Wooledge wrote: > 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.
We apparently don't speak the same dialect of english Greg. I wanted a dead tree (aka paper) copy of a manpage, with ALL the markup totally stripped. As for Lee's suggestion, I didn't try it since Cindy's example worked perfectly and by the time I read Lee's msg, I had what I needed on the output tray of my huge printer. No reflection on Lee was intended. Still isn't. Thanks Greg. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
