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.

James

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> Sent: Monday, November 30, 1998 5:08 PM
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> Subject: man sed > temp (to edit man page)?
>
>
> Hi.
>
> 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. Or I can import it into
> some other word processing document, for instance.
>
> Is there an elegant way to do this?
>
> Brad Kirchner
>