On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Michael Grover wrote: > is there any on-line version of the man pages? > > like for "man 5 interfaces" > > I tried "man 5 interfaces > mike.txt" but there was so many control > chars that the text file was too hard to read.
You can strip those control chars using 'col -b'. So, you can go: man 5 interfaces | col -b > interfaces.txt ...open up your favorite editor (more and less don't seem to have problems with the control chars, BTW), and it's all there in glorious ASCII text. I learned this, by the way, from "Unix Power Tools", 2nd Edition, O'Reilly and Associates. Far and away my favorite Unix book of any kind. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Preliminary operational tests were inconclusive. [EMAIL PROTECTED] : (The damn thing blew up.) Macintosh/UNIX Weenie, Network Flack, and...eh, whatever.