From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 6 19: 9:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.toronto.istar.net (mail1.toronto.istar.net [209.89.75.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AE8337B405 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 19:09:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from d226-39-102.home.cgocable.net ([24.226.39.102] helo=x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com) by mail1.toronto.istar.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 16CBOh-0002v8-00; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 22:10:00 -0500 Received: from localhost (genisis@localhost) by x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fB73FgS90085; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 22:15:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from genisis@istar.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com: genisis owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 22:15:42 -0500 (EST) From: Dru X-X-Sender: To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: FBSD Questions Subject: Re: How do I create man pages as file In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20011206221501.I85100-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > I do not have a printer on my FBSD box. When I try to create a > file from man page output I get funny characters around all the > words that are back lighted in white when displayed on the console. > I tried man ppp > /usr/home/data/manppp.txt > How can I drop the back lighted charters from the text file as it > gets created? I want to take this text file to my windows box to print. Hi Joe, man whatever | col -b > filename Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message