[plug] Quite Possibly a stupid question

[Matt Kemner]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Jonathon Bates wrote:

> But when I want to view say
> perldoc Pg 
> I can get the output nice and formatted, but when I cat the file, it ocmes
> out horrible an dunformatted. Is there a program that will clean and
> format the out put so I can then just email it out? 

"perldoc perldoc" shows it has an option -t

"     -t text output
         Display docs using plain text converter, instead of nroff.
         This may be faster, but it won't look as nice."

therefore "perldoc -t Pg|mail -s Pg batesy at rave.iinet.net.au"

ought to do what you want, unless I misunderstood the question

 - Matt