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Date:      Thu, 11 Nov 1999 18:30:55 +0000
From:      Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
To:        Don Read <dread@texas.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Printing man pages (was: Will the battle be won?)
Message-ID:  <19991111183055.A316@marder-1>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.991111085055.dread@texas.net>
References:  <19991110203936.E319@marder-1> <XFMail.991111085055.dread@texas.net>

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On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 08:50:55AM -0600, Don Read wrote:
> 
> ccs trimed,
> 
> On 10-Nov-99 Mark Ovens wrote:
> > 
> > Adding to my own message, even simpler is:
> > 
> >       man ppp | col -b > /usr4/ppp.txt
> > 
> 
> A former cow-orker was fond of :
> 
> man -P "col -b" ppp > ppp.txt
> 

Well, that's just the Unix Way; Whatever you want to do, there
are an average of 7.54923816[1] ways of doing it :)


1. 88.65% of all statistics are made up on the spot.


> Regards,
> -- 
> Don Read                                 dread@calcasieu.com
> EDP Manager                                  dread@texas.net
> Calcasieu Lumber Co.                               Austin TX
> -- No Coffee   No Peace

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