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Re: Linux Man => DOS Text



>>>>> "Tomas" == Tomas Petersson <tomas.petersson@pir.se> writes:

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

There's a nifty utility called 'col' which was designed just for
that.  Try piping the output from 'man' to 'col -b' before saving it,
like:

man man | col -b > man.txt

Of course, 'man col' is somthing you'll want to do. :{)

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