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  From: Andrew Harwood <aaharwood@bigpond.com>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 00:35:16 +1030

Re: Man page Format

on 22/11/00 11:09, Robert Crockart at bobcrock@onaustralia.com.au wrote:

>> 
>> The bold in a man page is indicated by a character before each bold
>> letter. If you want to print a man page without the corruption, filter it
>> through col. You loose the bold but at least it's readable.
>> 
>> ie: man somepage | col -b > file
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> * Benjamin Close
>> * Benjsc@senet.com.au
> 
> Thanks very much Benjamin.... it works!
> Now I wonder why I should have not found out about man page format by myself.
> 

The better way is to use "man -t" to get postscript output, then send that
to your printer (use ghostscript if you don't have a postscript compatible
printer :) Then, you get all the nice formatting. Of course, for quick
prints, using col may be faster.

-- 
Andrew Harwood
aaharwood@bigpond.com

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