Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 09:23:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: Murray <mgd@brutus.converging.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: how to delete bold from man pages? Message-ID: <XFMail.001003092332.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <20001002125324.A30050@converging.net>
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On 02-Oct-00 Murray wrote: > I have a FreeBSD box not connected to a printer, but I would like to > print some man pages. If I send the output of a man page to a file and > then attach that file to an email, I can pop the email on a w2k box > and then print the attachment. However: spacing is preserved but the > commands for bold and highlight are not. The bold formatting character > becomes a black box followed by a duplicate character. A highlighted > character becomes _blackboxduplicatecharactercharacter. Needless to > say this is somewhat unreadable. > > Is there a way to save the man page without the bold and highlight > affect? Alternatively, is there a w2k/windoze utility that can be used > to strip unwanted characters from a file? > > thank you... > -- > Murray Davis > Converging Technology Solutions > Edmonton, AB > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message man ls | col -b will give you the desired effect for ls anyway:) ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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