Hi Travis This is actually quite outdated now, but we did download Bwana as Esther also mentioned it in her post. I will get it installed shortly but the specific part of this particular man page which gives me the info I need is horribly difficult to understand.
On 15 Aug 2011, at 21:58, Travis Siegel wrote: You can do this, but the text output isn't always all that usable, because of overstrikes, bolding, and the like that the man program does, often by printing multiple characters on the same place on the terminal screen. However, in a pinch, it does work. Simply type: man command>outputfile and the man page for the command will be placed in the outputfile. As I said, it's not pretty most of the time, but it does work. Esther's suggestion of dumping it to preview would work better, since it would know how to handle the bold/overstrike/what have you, and would produce a much cleaner output, which you could then copy and paste into text edit if you really wanted a plain text version. hth. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
