[Tutor] Convert man file into readable text file

alan.gauld@bt.com alan.gauld@bt.com
Sun, 16 Jun 2002 22:54:16 +0100


> >nroff -man foo.man > foo.txt

> Thanks. Actually I'm using Windows. I copied a man file into 
> my Windows machine then tried to read that man file.

Well you could get a copy of GNU groff I guess but thats 
probably overkill :-)

OTOH You could install Cygwin (which every Windows user should have) 
which has man and groff etc available...

> So, I guess I should process the file first with nroff before 
> copy it into  my Windows machine. :)

Yeah, that would work too I suppose ;-)

Alan g