Re: Pipe man page as ASCII text
At 03:51 PM 11/21/02 -0500, Alan Shutko wrote:
>Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> writes:
>
>>>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org> writes:
>>
>> Bill> How can I mail an ASCII version of a man page?
>>
>> "man -Tlatin1 <man page>" will spit out an ASCII version of the page.
>
>Don't you mean "man -Tascii <manpage>" to get an ASCII version?
I should always post what I tried already, sorry.
man -Tascii man | mail moseley@hank.org
returns this:
man(1) Manual pager utils man(1)
NNAAMMEE
man - an interface to the on-line reference manuals
SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS
mmaann [--cc|--ww|--ttZZTT _d_e_v_i_c_e]
[--aaddhhuu77VV] [--mm _s_y_s_t_e_m[,...]] [--LL
_l_o_c_a_l_e] [--pp _s_t_r_i_n_g] [--MM
_p_a_t_h] [--PP _p_a_g_e_r] [--rr _p_r_o_m_p_t] [--SS
_l_i_s_t] [--ee _e_x_t_e_n_s_i_o_n]
[[_s_e_c_t_i_o_n] _p_a_g_e ...] ...
mmaann --ll [--77] [--ttZZTT _d_e_v_i_c_e]
[--pp _s_t_r_i_n_g] [--PP _p_a_g_e_r] [--rr
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Bill Moseley
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