From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 11 10:39: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E698F14D06 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 10:38:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 22320 invoked from network); 11 Nov 1999 18:31:27 -0000 Received: from userbz77.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.150.46) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 11 Nov 1999 18:31:27 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id SAA00963; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 18:30:56 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 18:30:55 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Don Read Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing man pages (was: Will the battle be won?) Message-ID: <19991111183055.A316@marder-1> References: <19991110203936.E319@marder-1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message