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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 04:10:46PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> 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.

I just discovered that links has the option to save the file
as formatted on the screen, which means that you can go to
one of the many manpages websites and find the one you want,
display it, then save it as a plain text file.

Here's one of them: http://www.linuxmanpages.com/
(the manpages on this site are formatted in html)

Lee
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