Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 09:59:55PM +0200, Christoph Groth wrote:
> Sven Burgener <svenb@bluewin.ch> writes:
>
> > How do I properly print out the contents of a manpage?
> > When I do ":r! man blabla" in vi, I get funny characters at some places.
> >
> > Using man's --ascii option didn't help.
>
> You can use Emacs (Even if this is hard for vi users ;-) ). Just type
> M-x man and then write the buffer to a file with C-x w .
>
> Another way would be to directly use troff/nroff.
How about 'man -t blabla |lpr'
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Bob Nielsen, N7XY nielsen@oz.net
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