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RE: Linux Man => DOS Text



On 03-Jun-98 Tomas Petersson wrote:
> Hello, how can I convert man pages to DOS-text
> so I can print them from my NT.
> If I just pipe to a file I get a lot of unwanted
> characters, is there a utiliy for this?

man whatever | col -b > filename

will output the man page for "whatever" as very plain text and place in
"filename".

Ted.

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E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
Date: 03-Jun-98                                       Time: 13:39:43
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