On 2 May 2001, Georges Heinesch wrote:
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man man > foo # works at least with 1.5.1_ALPHA and probably older

Building the formatted manpages (cat) in one step should work.

It seems like in the past with other other operating systems (different
man), this didn't work. (But a simple "-c" added to man should make it
work.)

The problem, I believe, with other man's is that they don't check if it is
a tty.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/