Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen
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.
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