> I tried this "manually" in terminal
>
> Man cp >~/mydoc.txt
>
> But the result includes some "stuttering", so I'm wondering about the 
> what
> would happen if I tried to use this with do shell script.

Doesn't your teletype machine understand that double characters 
seperated by a ascii 8 are to be bolded?
This handler will correct the formating. Still a little strange around 
the brackets. Hmmm.

man("cp")

on man(theCommand)
        set t to do shell script "man " & theCommand
        set the alphabet to 
"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz-"
        set d to ASCII character 8
        repeat with C in characters of alphabet
                set AppleScript's text item delimiters to C & d & C
                set t to text items of t
                set AppleScript's text item delimiters to (C as text)
                set t to t as text
        end repeat
        set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
        set t to text items of t
        set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
        return t as text
end man

On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 12:57  PM, Bruce Robertson wrote:

> CAT(1)            System General Commands Manual            CAT(1)
>
> N NA AM ME E
>      c ca at t - concatenate and print files
>
> S SY YN NO OP PS SI IS S
>      c ca at t [- -b be en ns st tu uv v] [- -] [_ f_ i_ l_ e _ ._ ._ 
> .]
>
> D DE ES SC CR RI IP PT TI IO ON N
>      The c ca at t utility reads files sequentially, writing them to 
> the
> standard
>      output.  The _ f_ i_ l_ e operands are processed in command line 
> order.
> A single
>      dash represents the standard input.
>