Contents

Copyright information
Introduction
Features
System requirements
Usage
How to reach the author
Revision history


Copyright information

manfilt 1.2 - unix man page filter
Copyright © 1994 George Leonidas Coulouris

        The  author  is not responsible for any damage, whether direct
or consequential, resulting from the use of this program.

        This  program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2
as published by the Free Software Foundation.

        This  program  is  distributed  in  the  hope  that it will be
useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY  or  FITNESS  FOR  A  PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

        You  should  have  received  a  copy of the GNU General Public
License  along  with  this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.


Introduction

        manfilt  will filter out those pesky control codes in unix man
pages.   Specifically, it will filter out bold sequences and underline
sequences.


Features

        -  Portable.   manfilt is written in ANSI C, and can ported to
any platform which supports the standard.

        - Pipe-able.  manfilt can be piped into and out of.


System requirements

        - None


Usage

        manfilt  reads  from  stdin  and  writes  to stdout.  In other
words,  you  will probably use command-line redirection to filter your
man pages.

Examples:

System2.1> manfilt <foo

        ...  will filter the file "foo", and write output to stdout.

System2.1> manfilt <foo >bar

        ...  will filter the file "foo", and write it to file "bar".

System2.1> gzip -d -c foo.gz | manfilt | MuchMore
        ...   will  pipe  input  from  gzip,  and  will pipe output to
MuchMore.


How to reach the author

Send feedback, suggestions, flames, etc. to:

        deltax@hermes.acm.rpi.edu


Help to put me through college! Send donations to:

        George L. Coulouris
        Box 4499 Route 32
        Catskill, NY 12414
        USA


Revision history

1.0             12 Mar 94.  First (only?) release.
1.1             13 Mar 94.  Silly mistake, fixed.
1.2             9 June 94.  Bug fix.