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Date:      Fri, 2 Oct 1998 19:58:49 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        "Alain G. Fabry" <fabry@panam.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Printing out man pages
Message-ID:  <19981002195849.B14161@scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <13c301bdee18$e77740e0$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org>
References:  <13c301bdee18$e77740e0$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org>

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Alain G. Fabry wrote:

> When I try to print out man pages, I get lots of junk, mainly ^H characters.
> How can I print out man pages which will be legible?
> Have postcript printer and I'am using a2ps to convert Ascii to PS.

$ man col

The -b option may help.

HTH

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