On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 10:12:40PM +0200, Sven Burgener ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 09:59:55PM +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > > Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How do I properly print out the contents of a manpage? > > > When I do ":r! man blabla" in vi, I get funny characters at some places. > > > Using man's --ascii option didn't help. > > > You can use Emacs (Even if this is hard for vi users ;-) ). Just type > > M-x man and then write the buffer to a file with C-x w . > > Aaargh. This box is a p90 with little RAM. I want no GUI, nothing fancy, > nothing bloaty. ;-)
emacs isn't gui. I can't speak for the rest of that.
You might also try:
$ man foo | col -b
...to output straight ascii.
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