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From: Gary Chrysler <tcg@mainelink.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Unix Newbe needing help! Ascii man pages??
Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 10:44:26 -0400
Organization: The Computer Guy
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Ok flame me.. So I don't know unix! Everybodys starts someplace!

Is there a way to extract ALL man pages to pure ascii??

Currently I do:
	man -a <cmd> |& col -b > ~/asciiman/<cmd>.man

I would like to automate this and extract all man pages to <cmd>.man

Thanx to those that reply with usefull comments..

tcg@mainelink.net

Please CC to email to.. thanks.