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Date:      Thu, 6 Dec 2001 22:15:42 -0500 (EST)
From:      Dru <genisis@istar.ca>
To:        Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com>
Cc:        FBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How do I create man pages as file
Message-ID:  <20011206221501.I85100-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOAEMICIAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>

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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



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