i am going to try that :) -----Original Message----- From: Paul Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 11:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: text conversion between Linux and Windows
That worked great! (I went with the PDF trick). Thanks, Paul At 10:58 PM 3/7/2002 -0500, you wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Paul Greene wrote: > >To print out man pages on various whatevers, what I usually do is, for > >example: > > > >man tcpdump > tcpdump.txt > > > >and then transfer the resultant text file over to a Windows machine for > >printing. > >I find it easier in the long run to configure a printer on the Linux box >and just do something like this: > > man -t tcpdump | lpr > >The output is Postscript and retains the formatting of the original >document. If you really want to print from the Winbox, you can keep the >formatting like this: > > man -t tcpdump > tcpdump.ps ; ps2pdf tcpdump.ps > >The result is a PDF file with all formatting intact. > > >Tony >- -- >Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]%3E> >OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D >AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> >Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) >Comment: Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0x6C94239D > >iD8DBQE8iDbypCpg3WyUI50RAg2RAKDr1UbAOUb9Bz7E4mkrHmwHfi19qgCgglKD >2YG5vFb6fiWrqnuc702gsws= >=xcN+ >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list **************************************************************************** This electronic communication and any accompanying document is being transmitted over the Indian Oil Network and contains confidential information that is for the exclusive use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and is protected against unauthorised disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended receipient or the employee or agent responsible to deliver to the intended receipient, or is not intended to act on it, be aware that any disclosure, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication, or the use of its contents is prohibited and is likely to be attended by legal consequences. If you have received this communication in error and/or are not the intended receipient, please immediately notify the undersigned or Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. at the telephone or the fax number or email address given above and permanently delete the original message from your email system. Whilst this mail has been checked for all the known viruses, recipients should undertake their own virus checking as Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. will not accept any liability whatsoever **************************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
