[Tutor] Convert man file into readable text file

Mico Siahaan mico@cbn.net.id
Sat, 15 Jun 2002 07:53:59 +0700


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....
>
>Alan G.

Thanks. Actually I'm using Windows. I copied a man file into my Windows 
machine then tried to read that man file.
So, I guess I should process the file first with nroff before copy it into 
my Windows machine. :)


Mico Siahaan
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