From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 11 15:12: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C0CA14F61 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 15:11:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a077.otenet.gr [195.167.115.77]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA19105 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 01:11:58 +0200 (EET) Received: (qmail 430 invoked by uid 1001); 11 Nov 1999 22:45:59 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing man pages (was: Will the battle be won?) References: From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 12 Nov 1999 00:45:58 +0200 In-Reply-To: Ariel Burbaickij's message of "Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:43:23 +0100 (MET)" Message-ID: <86u2msk5p5.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 33 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ariel Burbaickij 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, "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