[Tutor] Re: Convert man file into readable text file

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

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On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 07:53:59AM +0700, Mico Siahaan wrote:
| At 12:22 PM 6/14/2002 +0100, alan.gauld@bt.com wrote:
| >> I'm a newbie. I want to make a python script to convert a man
| >> file into a readable text file
| >
| >As an excercise fine but you could just do:
| >
| >nroff -man foo.man > foo.txt
| >
| >Its easier, faster and probably more useful since it will
| >create the paragraphs and headings etc correctly....
|
| Thanks. Actually I'm using Windows. I copied a man file into my Windows=
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| machine then tried to read that man file.
| So, I guess I should process the file first with nroff before copy it int=
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| my Windows machine. :)

Install cygwin.  When you do, you'll get 'man', 'groff', 'sed', 'awk',
'vim', and all the other nice tools that are so essential to the
usability of any system.

-D

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