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On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, 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.
> Thanks,
> 
> Alain

#!/usr/bin/sed -f
#
# m2a -- Man to Ascii filter.

s/.<CTRL-H>//g

here's a little script i use ...
enter the appropriate control character
above ... ^H

then say "man MANPAGE | m2a | ..."

or whatever.


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