Brendan,
Thanks!
Randy Kramer
(PS: The second program is in C for OS/2, but includes the source, so
could be useful on other platforms.)
Brendan wrote:
>
> I seem to remember seeing it somewhere...Let me go look for it...
>
> Hmmmmm, if you speak Spanish, here is something for man2txt:
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> #Por C2H5OH (aka etanol).
> #Copyleft 2001. GNU General Public License.
>
> #Comunicar bugs a [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> sub muestra_ayuda
> {
> print "Sintaxis: \tman2txt alias outfile\n";
> print "\t- alias: es el nombre de la página man (p.e: fork).\n";
> print "\t- outfile: el nombre del fichero de salida en formato
> texto.\n";
> print "\n";
> exit(1);
> }
>
> #Pal que no entienda esto: man man; man bash
> open (IN, "man -P \"cat -v\" $ARGV[0] 2>/dev/null |") and
> open (OUT, ">$ARGV[1]") or muestra_ayuda;
>
> while (<IN>) {
> s/.\^H//g;
> s/M\-{2}/\-/;
> print OUT;
> }
> close IN; #Y ya que tenemos buenos modales ;)
> close OUT;
>
> Found here: http://bulmalug.net/body.phtml?nIdNoticia=1028
> Got to love the penguin picture...
>
> Another page had this:
> http://www.filelibrary.com/Contents/DOS/22/9.html
>
> Looks like Windows programs...
>
> Or, this command could work:
> man [progname] | col -b > progname.man.txt
>
> Found this somewhere else:
> #!/bin/csh
> man $1 | 2txt > $1.txt
>
> Or, you could try this guys aliases:
> http://www.jttk.zaq.ne.jp/sagawa/html/pc/dot/.csh.aliases
>
> And this guy has some good utils on his page:
> http://www.geocities.com/jasonpell/oldprograms.html
>
> Hope all of this helps...
> Tell me how it comes out...
>
> Brendan
>
> >Brendan wrote:
> > > # ./man2txt < umlug.1x.txt | less
> >
> >Brendan,
> >
> >Thanks for this! Where did you find man2txt. It seems to not be
> >installed on Mandrake 8.1 with the selection I made, and although I
> >found a man page for it on the internet, I haven't, so far, found a
> >place to download it.
> >
> >Randy Kramer
> >
> >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
> >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
>
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