From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 7 3: 2:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tharmas.rintrah.org (dhcp065-024-235-184.insight.rr.com [65.24.235.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D57F037B417 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 03:02:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 88736 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Dec 2001 11:02:43 -0000 Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 06:02:43 -0500 From: devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org To: Dru Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I create man pages as file Message-ID: <20011207060243.A88272@tharmas.rintrah.org> Mail-Followup-To: Dru , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <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 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011206221501.I85100-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com>; from genisis@istar.ca on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:15:42PM -0500 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, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:15:42PM -0500, Dru wrote: > > > 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 > or for variety 'man -P cat whatever > filename --devin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message