Re: Pipe man page as ASCII text

2002-11-23 Thread Olivier Esser
On Friday 22 November 2002 02:03, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:32:08AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:55:05PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:36:31PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > > How can I mail an ASCII version of a man

Re: Pipe man page as ASCII text

2002-11-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:32:08AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:55:05PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:36:31PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > How can I mail an ASCII version of a man page? > > > > I know most answer gven here were correct for W

Re: Pipe man page as ASCII text

2002-11-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:55:05PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:36:31PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > How can I mail an ASCII version of a man page? > > I know most answer gven here were correct for Woody but may not be > in Sarge. > > Chck out GROFF_NO_SGR=1 Since grof

Re: Pipe man page as ASCII text

2002-11-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:36:31PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > How can I mail an ASCII version of a man page? I know most answer gven here were correct for Woody but may not be in Sarge. Chck out GROFF_NO_SGR=1 Since groff (backbone of man) changed a bit http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/refe

Re: Pipe man page as ASCII text

2002-11-21 Thread Alan Shutko
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > man -Tascii man | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh, try man -Tascii man | col -b | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (And you might consider getting an RFC-2822 compliant mailer. Are you using Eudora, perchance?) -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of f

Re: Pipe man page as ASCII text

2002-11-21 Thread Bill Moseley
At 01:02 PM 11/21/02 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: Ah, now I remember: man -Tascii man | col -b | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bill Moseley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pipe man page as ASCII text

2002-11-21 Thread Bill Moseley
At 03:51 PM 11/21/02 -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: >Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> "Bill" == Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Bill> How can I mail an ASCII version of a man page? >> >> "man -Tlatin1 " will spit out an ASCII version of the page. > >Don't you mean "man

Re: Pipe man page as ASCII text

2002-11-21 Thread Alan Shutko
Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Bill" == Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Bill> How can I mail an ASCII version of a man page? > > "man -Tlatin1 " will spit out an ASCII version of the page. Don't you mean "man -Tascii " to get an ASCII version? -- Alan Shutko <[EM

Re: Pipe man page as ASCII text

2002-11-21 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:36:31PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > How can I mail an ASCII version of a man page? One way is : man | col -b > asciifile There are probably lots of other ways (try man man) Frank > > > -- > Bill Moseley > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Pipe man page as ASCII text

2002-11-21 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Bill" == Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bill> How can I mail an ASCII version of a man page? "man -Tlatin1 " will spit out an ASCII version of the page. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1F

Pipe man page as ASCII text

2002-11-21 Thread Bill Moseley
How can I mail an ASCII version of a man page? -- Bill Moseley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]