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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Lee Forrest wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 11:40:36AM -0800, David Moberg wrote:
> > > sindi keesan wrote:
> [delete]
>
> > I wonder if sed can be used to convert the manroff formatting
> > to ANSI codes.
>
>
> This one works for the manpages with plain text tags (are there
> more than one kind like that?). I used pure-ftp.8.gz. I don't
> have an example of the other kind.

> Or I'll download it from your website or ftp server.

Try the man page for David Moberg's mplayer, about 2 MB download for the
whole package at my website or his (which site is it at now David?).
It has upper ascii characters which man2html botches.  I think he  also 
included a plain-text version you can check against.

Sindi