Glenn after Brad...

>> man sed > temp
>> ...I get lots of garbage when I open it up in vi.
>> I want to be able to somehow convert the formatting in a man page to
>> just plain ascii so vi can view and edit it.
 ...
>I'm interested in hearing the solution to this, because
>
>(1) I don't see the option in 'man man'.  (I have -k for keyword lookup,
>    -M to search a specific path, -w to show the filename for the man
>    entry, and -x to show what files are being searched.  That's it!)

Well, I do have some shell script (doing a bunch of sed's and awk's)
somewhere that converts the man output into HTML... If this would be
helpful, I could try to dig it up...

BTW, I recall noticing a difference in man output depending on whether
MANPATH or -M option was used or not used. And, of course, depending on
whether GNU groff was installed (for viewing non-MPE man pages) or not.

Lars (forgot the col -b details, sigh)