Converting unix manual pages to rtf

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From: Paul McIlroy
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 21:53

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Recently I have seen a number of articles in this news group asking 
for troff<==> LaTex and troff<==>RTF translators.  I was wondering if 
a simpler beast might exist, a program which could translate manual 
pages to RTF format.  Since the -man macros use only a small subset 
of troff's capabilities, I thought this sounded like an easier task 
than a full blown translator. Does anybody know of such a thing ?  
Many unix c utilities work just fine on a PC or Macintosh, but their 
documentation comes in troff -man format.  A utility to convert these 
to RTF (or other Word compatible format) would be really handy.

Paul McIlroy  (pmcilroy@srd.bt.co.uk).

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From: pmcilroy@srd.bt.co.uk (Paul McIlroy)
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Subject: Converting unix manual pages to rtf
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