From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 2 12: 2:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (mta05-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B46A537B673 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 12:02:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish ([62.253.85.160]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20001002190229.FZFO19709.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@parish>; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 20:02:29 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e92J2GA02569; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 20:02:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 20:02:11 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Murray Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to delete bold from man pages? Message-ID: <20001002200210.M252@parish> References: <20001002125324.A30050@converging.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001002125324.A30050@converging.net>; from mgd@brutus.converging.net on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:53:24PM -0600 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:53:24PM -0600, Murray wrote: > I have a FreeBSD box not connected to a printer, but I would like to > print some man pages. If I send the output of a man page to a file and > then attach that file to an email, I can pop the email on a w2k box > and then print the attachment. However: spacing is preserved but the > commands for bold and highlight are not. The bold formatting character > becomes a black box followed by a duplicate character. A highlighted > character becomes _blackboxduplicatecharactercharacter. Needless to > say this is somewhat unreadable. > > Is there a way to save the man page without the bold and highlight > affect? Alternatively, is there a w2k/windoze utility that can be used > to strip unwanted characters from a file? > % man foobar | col -b > filename > thank you... > -- > Murray Davis > Converging Technology Solutions > Edmonton, AB > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message