Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 04:49:58 +0000 (GMT) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> Cc: Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com>, FBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How do I create man pages as file Message-ID: <20011207044555.O55650-100000@big> In-Reply-To: <20011206221501.I85100-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com>
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Dru wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > > > I do not have a printer on my FBSD box. When I try to create a > > file from man page output I get funny characters around all the > > words that are back lighted in white when displayed on the console. > > I tried man ppp > /usr/home/data/manppp.txt > > How can I drop the back lighted charters from the text file as it > > gets created? I want to take this text file to my windows box to print. > > Hi Joe, > > man whatever | col -b > filename > > Dru Hi Joe, hi Dru, perhaps even more comfortable for use on different platforms: the conversion tool man2html (found in /usr/ports/textproc/man2html ). Uli. ************************************ * P. U. Kruppa - Wuppertal * * Germany * * www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de * ************************************ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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