On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Mark Bold wrote:
> I need MAN pages in Dos format.
> I've tried #man xxx > xxx.txt , ftping to WIN box , and with text
>editor
> converting UNIX>Dos. The format is still bad.
> Then wane to www,linux.org>support etc but ftp.win.tue.nl doesn't seem
> to have them.
> Any alternatives??
>
> Thanks
> Mark Bold
I just tried
/usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc /usr/man/man1/ps.1
That worked quite well, apart from the bold text which is done by
overstrike, ie. <char><bs><char>, and the underlined text done by
_<bs><char>, but whose should be easy to filter out.
Alternatively, in a "standard" distribution, it should be possible to do
something like "man -t foo|lpr -pPostScript" and get the man pages printed
quite prettily. That's the way I tend to do it, since I think a nice
Times in black on a white piece of paper is a lot easier on my eyes when I
have to read a lot of it.
--
Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S
URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/
Get the rest there.
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