From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 3 0:23:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2987837B503 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 00:23:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e937NWn23570; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 09:23:33 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20001002125324.A30050@converging.net> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 09:23:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: Murray Subject: RE: how to delete bold from man pages? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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