Re: Man Pages in Text?

From: Chuck Dillon (spam_at_nimblegen.com)
Date: 05/21/04 

Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 08:41:04 -0500

Alan Connor wrote:
> I'd like to turn all of my manpages into text, uncompressed.

I believe you are looking for 'catman -c' (on Solaris at least) which
generates the /cat* versions which aren't necessarily simple text but
they are pre-processed to be nroff ready.

-- ced

>
> Can I do this and still use man? I've gone through man man and
> man catman, but don't see a way to do this.
>
> I want to do this so I can add notes to the manpages and so
> that they don't take so long to load.
>
> Any reasons why I shouldn't do this?
>
> AC
> 

-- 
Chuck Dillon
Senior Software Engineer
NimbleGen Systems Inc.

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