on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 01:06:06AM -0500, Aaron Hall (ahall@vitaphone.net) wrote: > On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Michael Grover wrote: > > > is there any on-line version of the man pages? > > > > like for "man 5 interfaces" > > > > I tried "man 5 interfaces > mike.txt" but there was so many control > > chars that the text file was too hard to read. > > You can strip those control chars using 'col -b'. So, you can go: > > man 5 interfaces | col -b > interfaces.txt You can also use the -T flag to specify a device for output. To output a plain-ASCII page without control characters: # text (not much different from Aaron's example, mostly just an # example of using output directives) $ man -Tascii 5 interfaces | col -b > interfaces.txt # Postscript, nice for printing: $ man -Tps 5 interfaces > interfaces.ps # HTML, nice for browsing: $ man -Thtml 5 interfaces > interfaces.html You can also install the following Debian packages: man2html: Turns a web-browser and an httpd-server into a man pager. dwww: Read all on-line documentation via WWW ...which turns your system into a self-documenting webserver. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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