Printing MAN pages

[Gerard Seibert]

On Thursday, September 08, 2005 12:35:35 PM Kevin Kinsey <kdk at daleco.biz> wrote:

> Gerard Seibert wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to figure out how to print 'man' pages. If I try a simple
> > redirect, such as: "man foo > foo.txt" the new file is loaded
> > with control symbols, etc. that are not really printable. I want to
> > save the files if possible, and print them out at a later date. It
> > that is not possible, how would I go about printing them out in real 
> > time?
> >
> 
> 
> And if you don't care about PostScript, (think this is in the FAQ or
> fortune or some such);
> 
> man foo | col -bx > foo.txt
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Kevin Kinsey


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Thursday, September 08, 2005 1:15:27 PM

Thank you. That is exactly what I was looking for. I had not heard of
the 'col' program before.

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Gerard E. Seibert
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