On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 16:45, Øyvind Lode wrote: > Hello list. > > I'm a quite new Linux user. > I would like to export man pages to a file. > > Ex: I want to export the vsftpd man pages to a file. > I did that with the following command: > > # man vsftpd.conf > vsftpd.txt > > This worked very good and I can now read the exported file (vsftpd.txt) > with cat and vi. > It appears exactly like it does when reading from the man pages command. > But when I transer the file to a Windows box (XP) it doesn't look good > at all. > Some text appear "crypted" when reading in notepad so the file is hard > to read and some text is not readable at all. man vsftpd.conf | col -b | unix2dos > vsftpd.conf.txt -- Greg. Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors.