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Mike Martin wrote: > > I'm doing a man gateway in CGI and I cant do anything with the > characters when I get it into perl. > > The closest I have got to so far is using nroff -man|col -b, but then > I lose out on bold formatting. Lots of packages exist for this. Debian has; man2html (and many others). The "obvious" way to do a CGI for a man page is to use groff to convert the man page markup into html directly. In Debian you need "groff", "groff-base" and the other packages mentioned in the "groff" package description (all recommended packages of "groff" should do the job). zcat bash.1.gz | groff -man -Thtml - >/tmp/a.html The html isn't a thing of beauty., tidy spat 17231 errors on the bash manual page alone! (Okay most of them were the same two messages over and over again). The tools score a 2/10 on the usability stakes, and 2 of those points are for behaving properly with pipes. There are almost certain better places to start from ;) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html