printing out manual pages

Roger Cornelius rac at sherpa.UUCP
Mon Apr 29 21:58:42 AEST 1991


>From article <69425 at asparagus.Princeton.EDU>, by pfalstad at phoenix.princeton.edu (Paul Falstad):
>In article <1991Apr28.222052.19789 at agate.berkeley.edu> raymond at ursa.berkeley.edu (Raymond Yee) writes:
>>How do I print out output from the 'man' program or store 'man' output
>>in a file without having all the extraneous control characters?
>             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
>    nroff -man -Tman foo.man | col -b
> 
> will get all of them, if you have col.

And if you don't, you can get it from the freely distributable BSD
stuff.  On uunet the files are in ~/bsd-sources/usr.bin/col.

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Roger A. Cornelius          rac at sherpa.UUCP         uunet!sherpa!rac



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