Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 20:42:49 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <markov@globalnet.co.uk> To: Maury Markowitz <maury@OAAI.COM> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Man Pages Message-ID: <19990629204249.B253@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <199906291415.KAA06001@OAAI.COM>; from Maury Markowitz on Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 10:20:52AM -0400 References: <199906291415.KAA06001@OAAI.COM>
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On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 10:20:52AM -0400, Maury Markowitz wrote:
> > To my mind *one* of the points where FreeBSD is really good are the man=
=20
> > pages. I don't have a proposal how to use this fact for promoting =20
> FreeBSD,
> > but my intention is to mention that strength of FreeBSD here.
>=20
> Sorry about another newbie Q here, but how do I suck them into a =20
> readble text file? Is there something that will read them and spit =20
> out RTF or even just plain text? Or is there an easy grep I can do =20
> on them?
>=20
To print them try:
man <manpage> | /usr/bin/pr -t -F -o8 | lpr
The ``-o8'' shifts the text to the right 8 character spaces. It's
not necessary, but it gives you a left hand margin if you wish to
punch the printouts for a ring binder.
If you redirect this to a file instead of piping to lpr you will
see something like:
S^HSY^HYN^HNO^HOP^HPS^HSI^HIS^HS
for headings etc, which are the bold chars (backspacing and printing
twice) so use this to get a text file:
man <manpage> | /usr/bin/pr -F -t | sed 's/.=08//g' > <file>
where ``^H'' is typed as Ctrl-V Ctrl-H.
HTH
> Maury
>=20
>=20
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>=20
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