On Jan 16, 2006, at 1:58 AM, Chuck Pelto wrote:

> P.S. How can I capture the information in the manual to a text  
> document? Simply?

man hdiutil | col -b > man-hdiutil.txt

Note:  there is no obvious reason to use a command named col to get  
rid of the backspaces, etc.  It's just "the way it's always been done."

   --John