Re: FrameMaker files to UNIX man

["Decker F Wong-Godfrey" <dfgodfrey -at- milmanco -dot- com>]

I don't know of any direct way to do it, but you should be able to use the
following perl script to convert html output to pod. Once you've got the pod
files created, use pod2man (which should be in your Perl kit) to convert the
output to man pages.


Decker Wong-Godfrey


-----Original Message-----

Hello all:

I have a client that has asked me to convert my FrameMaker 6.0 files to
UNIX man pages.  The goal is to preserve formatting so I don't have to
spend time reformatting the text files.

Has anyone done this?  Is there a utility I should can use?

Thanks, Larry




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