Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:39:37 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing man pages (was: Will the battle be won?) Message-ID: <19991110203936.E319@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <19991110201528.C319@marder-1> References: <13581.942254619@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911101826180.4196-100000@sun7> <19991110123638.06840@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <3829C558.A611C815@3-cities.com> <19991110201528.C319@marder-1>
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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
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