Thx Les - that was kind. Now I can see all those options! I was going to ask a mate, tomorrow - but thought I could use a text editor like TextPad5 (or some other) to do the conversion myself. (Then, got curious that I couldn't find a helpful link online)
________________________________ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Les Hughes Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:36 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] how to convert Unix man to useful text Ian Thomas wrote: > > Can someone tell me - How can I convert a unix man file to text > readable under Windows? (w/o installing Cygwin) - it's not just the > line endings that need to be handled. > > http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/rxp.txt > <http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/%7Erichard/rxp.txt> > > rxp is an xml checker (I'm just curious about it), no docs except this > file. > > Get a *nix user on the list to do it? :) cat rxp.txt | col -b > rxpFixed.txt -- Les Hughes [email protected]
