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