you could also use 'col -b'
man cfdisk | col -b | lpr
pascal
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 11:33 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Printing MAN pages
>
>
>
> On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Herman Aa wrote:
> > This was printed to file:
> > MAN cfdisk > file.txt
> > The text is horrible in Notepad. Following is via Wordpad.
> >
> > Almost there! Just the headerline is not right yet.
> > Is there a way to get this translated to simple ASCII ?
> >
> > # DDOOSS 66..xx WWAARRNNIINNGG
> > # The DOS 6.x FORMAT command looks for some information in
> > # ................ bulk removed.
> > # to zero the first 512 bytes of the partition.
> > # BBEE EEXXTTRREEMMEELLYY CCAARREEFFUULL if
> > # you use the dddd command, since a small typo can make all of
> > # the data on your disk useless.
>
> All i can think of at the minute is groff, take a look at the man
> page for 'groff'
>
> For instance groff -Tascii /usr/man/man/man8/name.8 | more will show
> the page in readable format without all the highlighted cahrs etc,
> the man page also explanes about 'ps'.
>
> Hope this helps as i dont have a printer.
>
> > Herman Aalderink, Philippines (Cebu island).
> > Permanent (always good, but slower) email addr :
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Note 'zero' in n0jn).
> --
> Regards Richard
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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