On Wednesday 02 Jul 2003 2:37 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 Jul 2003 5:35 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> > | col -b > lilo_manpage.ps
>
> for
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]$ man col| col -b > col_manpage.ps
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]$ ls -l col_manpage.ps
> -rw-r--r--    1 lvgandhi lvgandhi     2568 Jul  2 07:05
> col_manpage.ps but kghostview couldn't open it.

col outputs text, not postscript.
% cat col_manpage.ps
will display the file.

See my previous post for getting man to output postscript directly, 
without using col. (Sorry I'm late for work.)

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Richard Urwin

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