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!) (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! Brad, what system are you doing this on?? --Glenn Cole Software al dente, Inc. [log in to unmask] ....................................................................... Item Subject: cc:Mail Text