[gentoo-user] Re: How to get plain ascii from "man"?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-03-25, Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com> 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