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From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
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Subject: Re: How do I create man pages as file
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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.


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