Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 2 Oct 1998 14:49:52 -0800 (AKDT)
From:      groggy@iname.com
To:        "Alain G. Fabry" <fabry@panam.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Printing out man pages
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.981002144644.575D-100000@abc.xyz.net>
In-Reply-To: <13c301bdee18$e77740e0$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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.


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.96.981002144644.575D-100000>