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Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:51:51 +0800
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Re: Automating Disk Utility
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At 21:01 +1100 16/1/06, Shane Stanley wrote:
>On 16/1/06 8:58 PM, "Chuck Pelto" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>  How can I capture the information in the manual to a text
>  > document? Simply?
>
>Put this in your Script menu:
>
>set theResult to (display dialog "Command to man:" default answer "")
>do shell script ("man -t " & (text returned of theResult) ¬
>     & " | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app")

Bwana <http://www.bruji.com/bwana/> is also a 
good solution, then you just type "man:hdiutil" 
into Safari and it comes up nicely formatted and 
linked.

Enjoy,
    Peter.

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