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On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Message from Steven
> ===================
> Chris wrote:

> BL3 does not read standard manpages, which are formatted
> on-the-fly by groff.  Adding groff to BL3 would require
> several megabytes.
>
> The manpages in BL3 (see /usr/man) have been pre-formatted
> so they do not need groff.

Man2html (42K) from Slackware requires only libc and ld-linux.

man2html page.1 > page.html then if you want plain text
use lynx or links to save it as plain text (save as formatted text in 
links or P to Print to a file in lynx).