Glenn Cole writes:
>
> Brad Kirchner writes:
> > When I do:
> > 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.
>
> James Clark replies:
> > Do a man on man and there is an option for clear text, no highlights, for
> > just the purpose you are wanting it for. I do not use the option enough to
> > remember what it is, but I know it is there.
>
> 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!)

On HPUX, the option is "-", i.e. "man - sed >temp".  But you're right, I don't
see this option listed for MPE.

> (2) On HP-UX, I would use
>
>         man sed | col -b > temp
>
>     but 'col' does not exist on MPE!
>
> Hmmm...well, THAT's interesting!  I don't have this problem at all!
> That is, I have no highlights when doing the 'man' to the screen,
> and thus no special chars when I do the 'man' to a file!

Like Glenn, "man sed" is clean for me too, both to the screen and to a file.
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