From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LmeMg-0006x5-Qq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:26:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BD32CE0357; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:26:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D857E0357 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:26:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 439A4642F5 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:26:31 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.47 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.47 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.129, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id izbfyUTSAV-r for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:26:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C29D6497F for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:26:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LmeMM-0003Qv-Bs for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:26:18 +0000 Received: from 67-220-10-117.usiwireless.com ([67.220.10.117]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:26:18 +0000 Received: from grante by 67-220-10-117.usiwireless.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:26:18 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to get plain ascii from "man"? Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:26:06 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <58965d8a0903251526v5690f853sb51c0d0a0f1c3c47@mail.gmail.com> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67-220-10-117.usiwireless.com User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Linux) Sender: news Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 5ae69eba-bac5-4305-b0f2-dabba22d3264 X-Archives-Hash: 73c16a92d464f3d6391acb5e35b9093f On 2009-03-25, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Edit /etc/man.conf and add -c to the commandline for TROFF, >> NROFF and JNROFF. Then "man program | col -bf" or your method >> of choice should work. There is a note in the man.conf >> comments about it. > > That didn't work for me. Does it work for you? Doh! I added the -c to the GROFF line not on the TROFF line. > I also tried manually running groff using the -c flag, and that > didn't work either. The groff man page says that -c will be passed on to troff and will disable color output, but that doesn't seem to work. -- Grant