I'm trying to do some mass-man page reading and I want to read some man pages on another computer (windows). I used the following command:

man dhcpd.conf > /root/dhcpd.conf.man

the file was perfectly readable with more

I tried to mount a floppy to transfer the file with the command:

mount msdos -t /dev/fd0u1440 /mnt/floppy/

and it returned:

mount: fs type /dev/fd0u1440 not supported by kernel

I just decided to give up on this for the time being but if you know what is wrong let me know. I then used ftp to transfer it to my mac os x computer which has a nice ftp server. I logged in and transfered the file (in binary mode) there. It was corrupted. Here's an excerpt:

For every subnet which will be served, and for every subnet to which
the dhcp server is connected, there must be one _s_u_b_n_e_t declaration,
which tells dhcpd how to recognize that an address is on that subnet.
A _s_u_b_n_e_t declaration is required for each subnet even if no addresses
will be dynamically allocated on that subnet.

and another:

Notice that at the beginning of the file, there’s a place for global
parameters. These might be things like the organization’s domain
name, the addresses of the name servers (if they are common to the
entire organization), and so on. So, for example:

Still somewhat readable, but I'm still frustrated. I read that if I switch to ascii mode in ftp the problem would be solved. Well, the same thing happened. What do I need to do to view the file correctly outside of a linux box?

Oh, and I'm running a half day old install of RH9.

When you mount - the t stands for type so you want:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0u1440 /mnt/floppy/

It will also be a text file so ftp it in text mode.

ok, I got the floppy mounted, copied the dhcpd.conf.man (which it renamed to DHCPD.CON) to the floppy, opened it up in windows and got the same jumbled text. I've gotten nowhere, but thanks for your quick response!

the problem with jumbled text is not an issue between linux and windows. The output of man is not a plain text. Just try open it with a normal text editor under linux (e.g. kedit) and you'll see.

There are online, easier to read html versions of man pages which you can read from any os that has a browser. For example at linuxquestions.org:
http://man.linuxquestions.org/

wow. thank you! that'll work out great