If I may suggest a small modification...
man ls | col -b > /path/to/destination/clean/manpage
>>>>> "Suresh" == Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Suresh> Shridhar Daithankar saw fit to inform LI that:
>> Just say 'man ls > /c:/windows/manpages/ls.man' and open it in
>> any intelligent editor. Wordperfetc might do. Or use
>> PFE(programmers file editor.
>>
Suresh> Assuming you are using automount or something. Or else,
Suresh> # mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hdtemp # man ls >
Suresh> /mnt/hdtemp/manpages/ls.man (say)
Suresh> Use wingroff rather than pfe ... I think even wordpad will
Suresh> do for this if you don't mind loss of formating.
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