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On Saturday 21 September 2002 05:05 pm, Linux wrote:
> From time to time it is good to have printed copies of man pages.
> when I issue the command "man binary > /path
> When I do this most of the text works out OK. The headings end up with
> double or triple characters or have squares between the repeated
> characters.
>
> Does anyone know of a method for converting man pages into straight
> text

2 possible ways, there are others as well.
man -t <some man page> | lpr
groff -man -pte /path/to/some/man/page | lpr

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