On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 10:01:20PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 10:54:22PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 06:53:50PM +0200, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > > > Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > > > >Is there an easy way to output man pages without all of the underlined > > > >text? I want to redirect man page output to text type files, but all > > > >of the files include squares or ^H^H^H all over the place... > > > > > > you already got good answers to your question, but if you need > > > the text format to print it, the best thing is to use > > > man -t <something>, which will give you nicely formatted > > > postscript output. > > > > zcat /usr/share/man/man5/html2textrc.5.gz | groff -t -mandoc > print.ps > > That's morally equivalent to 'man -t html2textrc > print.ps', but more > cumbersome and less reliable (it will fail if the man page needs a > preprocessor like tbl). >
Yes, it is. One of these days I will change that alias. It seems to work with signal (7). Maybe there's another example where my method fails. Thanks for the correction, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
