Re: [Groff] Unix Man Pages

[Alejandro Lopez-Valencia]

At 10:05 a.m. 07/03/2003 -0800, J Robinson wrote:

> Suppose I had a list of pathnames to a system's man
> pages (like /usr/lib/perl5/man/man3/POSIX.3.gz,
> /usr/man/man3/mitem_visible.3x, etc.) What would be a
> good cross *nix way to convert them to ascii?

Assuming you use groff 1.18.x, does

$ export GROFF_NO_SGR=1
$ man -c 3 mitem_visible | col -b > mitem_visible_3.txt

work for you?


> Any tips on how to approach this in a *nix-independent
> manner (while still retaining man page formatting) are
> most welcome.

Huh!? You lost me there.


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Alejandro Lopez-Valencia                         tora no shinden
python -c "print('ZHJhZHVsQDAwN211bmRvLmNvbQ=='.decode('base64'))"