Very Computer

Greetings

How can I print man pages to a line printer?
I need to remove the control characters for bold ... etc.

Thanks in advance

Rudy Hillen

nroff -man -TPRINTERTYPE...
(look at the nroff man pages ;-) )

provide what you want?

Hope this helps,
Patrice.
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Hi Rudy.

It is very simple. All you have to do is the following:

$ man xxx | col -b > filename

Then you can print the file in any printer.

Eran Berger
UNIX system administrator
Log-On LTD.  32 Tuval st.
Ramat-Gan, ISRAEL

: Greetings

: How can I print man pages to a line printer?
: I need to remove the control characters for bold ... etc.

: Thanks in advance

: Rudy Hillen