Re: Man Pages in Text?

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 05/21/04 

Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 17:06:34 GMT

On Fri, 21 May 2004 08:41:04 -0500, Chuck Dillon <spam@nimblegen.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>

Thanks, Chuck. My version doesn't have the -c option (GNU, I assume, Debian
Linux here.)

Like I said, I want to cut gzip and [tng]roff out of the loop...

Tomsrtbt has the man pages in plain text. I'll drop him a note and ask how
he pulled that off.

AC

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