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Subject:Re: Unix man pages to web From:David Sewell <dsew -at- PACKRAT -dot- AML -dot- ARIZONA -dot- EDU> Date:Wed, 8 Jul 1998 16:12:00 GMT
In article <35A38FDA -dot- F21A393E -at- cellnet -dot- com>,
Alan Oehler <alan -dot- oehler -at- cellnet -dot- com> wrote:
>I want to take the files that the Unix man command uses to format man
>pages onscreen, and turn them into both Word or Frame documents and HTML
>documents.
To avoid reinventing the wheel, first look at the program "rman"
(formerly known as PolyglotMan), which accepts [nt]roff source for
man pages from most varieties of Unix and can output versions in
formats including ASCII, HTML, SGML, LaTeX, RTF, and TkMan.
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