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 . > > Another way would be to directly use troff/nroff.
How about 'man -t blabla |lpr' -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
