Re: man pages text only

From: Chris R (Chris_member_at_newsguy.com)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: 28 Sep 2004 13:19:07 -0700

In article <200409281710.i8SHAJgY016186@smtp.andrew.cmu.edu>, Philip Lewis
says...
>
>I think you can do this by making a script along these lines:
>
>unset TERMCAP
>TERM=dumb
>man $*
>

I tried that and with a dumb TERM, the characters are bacically ignored. When I
do man ksh, I see plain text. I do man ksh >ksh.txt and then do a more of
ksh.txt and it looks like plain text. I reset my TERM back to vt100 and look at
the ksh.txt file and all of the escape codes are still in there. The TERM
difference only seems to effect the display, not the output of man. I even
tried man ksh | cat >ksh.txt, in case man was smart enough to determine if
output was stdio vs | command and it still came up the same.

 - Chris

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