[quoted lines by Antony Stace on June 16, 2000, at 08:48]
>How can I convert a unix man page to plain text?
The proper way to do it is via a short script like the following:
#!/bin/sh
man "$@" | ul -t dumb | expand | uniq
Some people might suggest using "col -b" instead of "ul -t dumb", but that
sometimes causes the loss of trailing hyphens.
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