To convert Unix Man pages
to text format, you can make
use of one feature of 'man'
itself.
(Check out man man)
Set environment variable PAGER
to 'cat'. Then run
% man command_name > command_name.txt
eg. in csh, to see man ls in
a text file
% setenv PAGER cat
% man ls > ls.txt
NOTE: Do not forget to unsetenv
PAGER, else you will have to
pipe every man command to
'more' or (my favourite) 'less'.
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