Hi,
to get a ascii out of a man page, first filter out all the format you normally
find in a man-page. To do that,
$ man cfdisk |col -b > file.txt
For more details : man col
- venkat
In message "Printing MAN pages",
"Herman Aa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>This was printed to file:
> MAN cfdisk > file.txt
>The text is horrible in Notepad. Following is via Wordpad.
>
>Almost there! Just the headerline is not right yet.
> Is there a way to get this translated to simple ASCII ?
>
># DDOOSS 66..xx WWAARRNNIINNGG
># The DOS 6.x FORMAT command looks for some information in
># ................ bulk removed.
># to zero the first 512 bytes of the partition.
># BBEE EEXXTTRREEMMEELLYY CCAARREEFFUULL if
># you use the dddd command, since a small typo can make all of
># the data on your disk useless.
