From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 10 12:42:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 93A1014D71 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 12:41:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 15812 invoked from network); 10 Nov 1999 20:41:50 -0000 Received: from userac13.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.130.211) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 10 Nov 1999 20:41:50 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id UAA01239; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:39:37 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:39:37 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Kent Stewart Cc: Greg Lehey , Ariel Burbaickij , Sheldon Hearn , Giorgos Keramidas , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing man pages (was: Will the battle be won?) Message-ID: <19991110203936.E319@marder-1> References: <13581.942254619@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <19991110123638.06840@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <3829C558.A611C815@3-cities.com> <19991110201528.C319@marder-1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <19991110201528.C319@marder-1> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 08:15:28PM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > > > zcat /usr/share/man/man8ppp.8.gz | nroff -mandoc > /usr4/ppp.txt > > > > Hmm, but that way you get all the double printing stuff: > > N^HNA^HAM^HME^HE > p^Hpp^Hpp^Hp - Point to Point Protocol (a.k.a. user-ppp) > > Try: > > zcat /usr/share/man/man8/ppp.8.gz | nroff -mandoc | col -b > /usr4/ppp.txt > Adding to my own message, even simpler is: man ppp | col -b > /usr4/ppp.txt > > and I had a text version of ppp(8) on my /usr4 fs. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Kent -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message