Colin Watson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:53:24AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: < --snip fix from previous post --> > > > > > By the way, if you're actually printing man pages to paper (I'm not sure > > > from your post if you mean printing to screen or printing to paper), > > > consider using the -t option to man to generate PostScript output. > > > > Sorry, the pages display (to the screen) fine but I am unable to print > > (to the printer) without them looking like ^[[1mNAME^[[0m > > Neither this nor your answer above is supposed to happen. Could you tell > me exactly what you're doing so that I can try to reproduce it?
Not sure I get what you mean but here is what is happening. I can do 'man man' and it displays fine on the screen ie no formating characters. I do recall it did display the control chars for a short time but that was a long time ago. If I do man man | a2ps -2 --catman or man man | a2ps or man man | lpr or man man | lp I get the control characters on each line ( This was 'not' the case 5-6 months ago) When you posted the fix a few months back, my printer had recently bit the dust, but I had seen the problem a week or so before that. I got a new printer (HP LaserJet 6P) for Christmas and noticed that the control character problem was still there. I have been looking for your post on how to fix it since then. Using the ' man -t | lpr -o number-up=2 -P Laser_6P' has fixed it. It isn't as nice a printout as from a2ps but it does get the job done. System here is stable/testing manpages 1.48-2 groff 1.18-7 a2ps 4.13b-16 cupsys 1.1.15-4 Last dist-upgrade this AM. I do see that there is a new cupsys & groff in unstable but I don't want to jump there just now.. Hope that this is enough info for you. If not, let me know. Thanks for your interest and help. Wayne -- The fortune program is supported, in part, by user contributions and by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Inanities. _______________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]