Re: text conversion between Linux and Windows

2002-03-07 Thread Mark Bradbury
man tcpdump | col -b tcpdump.txt On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 12:47, 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. But due to

Re: text conversion between Linux and Windows

2002-03-07 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-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

Re: text conversion between Linux and Windows

2002-03-07 Thread Edward Dekkers
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

Re: text conversion between Linux and Windows

2002-03-07 Thread Paul Greene
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

RE: text conversion between Linux and Windows

2002-03-07 Thread PRASADSL
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