On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Tom Taylor wrote:
> Hi fellow Tuxers:
> Not an earthshaking problem but, does anyone know of a way to save man
> pages without the display formatting (highlight, color, etc.)? I want to
> print it out from my as yet unsupported by Linux printer which is on my
> WinNT box.
> When I save it to a file (man taper >taper.txt) it includes all the
> display formatting commands which of course show up in the printed copy.
> The printer is a Canon BJC-5000 which I use for "B" size Autocad drawings
> but doesn't work under Linux yet.
>
Hmm... Ok...here's something for you to do...get a
(dos) program from Hotfiles.com called "fixtext" and run the
textfile through that to clean it up. That's what I had to
do to get it to work for me, now that I think of it. You're
right -- it did have a whole bunch of "junk" that I didn't
want, but running it through FixText took care of the
garbage characters. I'm sure there's a way to do this under
Linux, but I'm still enough of a newbie to not know how. :-)
John
