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From: Alan Oehler
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 00:00

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Hi all...

There's something I want to do, and I cannot believe that it hasn't
already been done by many folks, so before I start digging myself a hole
when I could have just climbed down an already-dug one,  I thought I
should see what might be out there in relevant newsgroups.

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. I want to automate the process so that when someone updates
one of those documents it can get pulled in and update the web page
automatically, and be pulled into a Word- or Frame-based reference
document for hardcopy printing in a very easy way. I've been thinking of
using Word 97's VBA to process the files and ASP on an IIS/NT 4 server
to tie together the Web presentation.

Has anyone out there done something similar? Is there a good
off-the-shelf tool I might want to check out? And, can anyone point me
to a reference where I can determine the syntax of the man page source
files (I was told they're done in troff)?

Thanks!

-Alan Oehler, CellNet Data Systems, Inc.

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From: Alan Oehler <alan.oehler@cellnet.com>
Subject: Unix man pages to web
Date: 1998/07/08
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