you can use man2html to create an html doc. I think there is also a way to
make a postscript file. You can always print it to a file, and then use
ghostview to read/print it. Of course, none of these thing actually address
your question about text. I don't know if you can go to plain text.
Kenny
Kenneth E. Lussier
FISC-RMS
563-3444
"The best things (software) in life are FREE"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: csmith [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 2:17 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Printing a MAN page
>
> Just when it seems that something in Linux might do what I think it
> might......... wahm...
>
> I have no printer on my linux machines, so I emailed my self a copy of a
> man page so that I could print it out, buyt guess what all I got was
> for the most part unreadable trash. is there any way to force this man
> page into a stright asci text file so that I can read it in printed
> form.
>
>
> chris
>
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