UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I used the following commands to store the discription of "sed" into a unix file:

Code:

man sed > sed.txt

But, after I download the file "sed.txt" to a Windows XP system, the file can not be displayed correctly. How to change the format of a Unix file to a Windows one?

It seems that the file sed.txt can not be displayed in Emacs either:


User Commands SED(1)



NAME
sed - manual page for sed version 4.0.3

SYNOPSIS
sed [_O_P_T_I_O_N]... {_s_c_r_i_p_t-_o_n_l_y-_i_f-_n_o-_o_t_h_e_r-_s_c_r_i_p_t} [_i_n_p_u_t-
_f_i_l_e]...

DESCRIPTION
_S_e_d is a stream editor. A stream editor is used to perform
basic text transformations on an input stream (a file or
input from a pipeline). While in some ways similar to an
editor which permits scripted edits (such as _e_d), _s_e_d works
by making only one pass over the input(s), and is conse-
quently more efficient. But it is _s_e_d's ability to filter
text in a pipeline which particularly distinguishes it from
other types of editors.

I can only use cat to read this file.

man is not a good thing to redirect since it pipes the output through more (or less).

But, try this:

Code:

man sed > file
unix2dos file > file.txt

try :

man sed | col > sed.txt

Check out this link:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/scripts/...man2txt.sh.txt

Cheers
enc