On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 02:50:23PM +0800, Horace G. Friend III ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> This is off-topic but I need a quick fix so I hope you'll oblige.
> I still do double-sided printing in windoze because of my printer
> (HP710C). :( I'd like to convert several man pages into plain
> text and save it to my windoze dir. How can I do that?
>
> I've tried this command as suggested by man man page but doesn't work.
>
> man procmail | col -b > procmail.txt
>
> Any ideas? Thanks.
First idea -- tell us what's happening, rather than saying it "doesn't
work". That's the correct way to get a copy of a manual page with the
bold and underline bits removed (-b strips out backspaces, which is
how you do bold and underline in man).
However, if you're doing this to print them out, why not generate
postscript? Manual pages are just nroff documents.
-Rich
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