On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 09:05:21AM +1200, 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
>
You can print nice typeset copies of manpages (assuming you have
a printer that can do nice proportional fonts, which most can these
days) by doing:
man -t foobar
and voila! a nicely formatted page for foobar!
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