man-db vs. man

Sir Gallantmon ngompa13 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 23:31:15 UTC 2010


Couldn't you still do something similar with man-db to get the desired
effect?

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Hans Ulrich Niedermann <
hun at n-dimensional.de> wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:53:50 +0100
> Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:
>
> > In a package of mine, "man -l" is used to create a plaintext version
> > of the manpage, which seems to only work with man-db. Could this be a
> > Feature for F14 to use man-db instead of man or are there major
> > reasons not to do this?
>
> If you need that feature urgently, you can run
>
>   $ man ./whatever.1 | col -b > whatever.1.txt
>
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