the space doesn't have anything to do with the problem. verify if you can view the contents of the file:

cat col_manpage.ps
less col_manpage.ps

You should be able to view it.

Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 11:37, 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.


Maybe it's because you need a space in between "col" and the "|" ?

So:

man col | col -b > col_manpage.ps

??



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