From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 2 13:01:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA26154 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:01:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA26133 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:00:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.04 #9) id 0zPAPh-0003hq-00; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 19:58:49 +0100 Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 19:58:49 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: "Alain G. Fabry" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing out man pages Message-ID: <19981002195849.B14161@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <13c301bdee18$e77740e0$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <13c301bdee18$e77740e0$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org> User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.3i (FreeBSD 3.0-BETA i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Ben Smithurst : ben@scientia.demon.co.uk : http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ PGP: 0x99392F7D - 3D 89 87 42 CE CA 93 4C 68 32 0E D5 36 05 3D 16 http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ben/pgp-key.html (or use keyservers) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message