Date: 12 Nov 1999 00:45:58 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing man pages (was: Will the battle be won?) Message-ID: <86u2msk5p5.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: Ariel Burbaickij's message of "Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:43:23 %2B0100 (MET)" References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911102140570.16628-100000@sun33>
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Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de> writes: [ large snip ] >>>> I did a >>>> >>>> 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 >> >> That depends on how you look at it. Normally you'd use less or more >> to look at it, and they convert this junk into bold print, so it's an >> advantage not to remove the ^H stuff. >> Daemon means obviously seriously with me the suggested method > with col -b does not work either.With or without all these > bells and whistles such as bold printing. I got same results. Oh, Ariel. Try using this pipeline, and see what happens. Try writing: % man ls | col -b | lpr and see if you get that staircase-thing you describe. Ciao. -- Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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