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  1. 01-26-2004 #1
    kpzani
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    I want to use save the contents of a man page for viewing later on Windows. What command should i use?

    I tried man pbbedit > pdbedit.txt but I get a slightly garbled output.
    Can I pump the output into a PDF file or something. Poss pipe it into an app that allows me to save the file and something friendly.

    what about some kind of man to html converter?

    Dolda: you posted a something like this a while ago but the search doesn't seem to return it. (maybe it wasn't you!)
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    Dolda2000
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    You can convert a manpage into several formats. The easiest are PostScript and PDF, which can be obtained like this:
    Code:
    man -t manpage >manpage.ps
man -t manpage | ps2pdf - manpage.pdf
    To get HTML, you have to know the actual path of the manpage, and use it like this:
    Code:
    zcat /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz | groff -Thtml -man >manpage.html
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    There's also tons of man pages on the net. i.e. Just google "man rm" or take a look at these: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...-8&q=man+pages
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  4. 01-27-2004 #4
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    thanks

    cheers

    that gives me plenty to play with.

    I know there are man pages on the net but that I also knew that this could be done. therefore it bugged me that I couldn't do it.
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