Re: HOW do you dump a man page to a regular ascii file

[Marty P. Combs]

On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, christ wrote:

 > nroff -man -Tascii whatever.1 > whatever.txt

You can also do

man [manpage] | col -b > [file]


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