I. Oppenheim wrote: >On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Phil Taylor wrote: > >> (Sorry guys, not wanting to start a platform-specific flame war, >> but I'm having to learn to love unix, and man in particular is >> driving me crazy.) > >Convert all man pages to html, and use you're >webbrowser to read them.
er, how do I do that? Actually I'd rather have them as plain text, since I have any number of seraching and indexing programs I can use with that. Just as an experiment I tried man vi > vimanual.txt and was pleased to get a text file out of it. When I opened the resulting text file in a text editor, however, the resulting file had all the bold text in DDOOUUBBLLEE LLEETTEERRS, and all the underlined text spaced out with _a_s_c_i_i _u_n_d_r_l_i_n_e characters. This stuff is actually formatted to be printed out on a teletype, where the only way you can get a bold character is to backspace and print it again! Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
