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by **Lingxun Che** » Tue, 12 Aug 1997 04:00:00

I want to print out some man pages, but I can't use the -t option. If I
use redirection, then print, there will be a lot of annoying special
characters.

Does anybody have a good idea on how to do this? Thanks.

Eric

by **andy** » Wed, 13 Aug 1997 04:00:00

> I want to print out some man pages, but I can't use the -t option. If

You have two options.

1. man command | lpr

2. nroff -man manpage_to_print | lpr

by **Joe McCaugh** » Wed, 13 Aug 1997 04:00:00

: I want to print out some man pages, but I can't use the -t option. If I
: use redirection, then print, there will be a lot of annoying special
: characters.

: Does anybody have a good idea on how to do this? Thanks.

: Eric

You can pipe the man page through col -b to remove all
the wierd characters: man grep | col -b > filename

--Joe McCaughan | The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,

by **Axel Hech** » Wed, 13 Aug 1997 04:00:00

use the groff command to do this.
It can produce ascii, Postscript, dvi etc.
And it has the most interesting commandline option I have seen since:
for manpages do
groff -m andoc -Tascii whatever.1
^
Oh I just love groff for that :-)

Axel

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man pages.

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