Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)
In article <[🔎] 20000909202609.A1901@host.homelan.ch>,
Sven Burgener <svenb@bluewin.ch> wrote:
>How do I properly print out the contents of a manpage?
The printer should have no problems with manpages. And if you use
'man -t blabla' you even get nice postscript output.
>When I do ":r! man blabla" in vi, I get funny characters at some places.
>Using man's --ascii option didn't help.
If you mean you want to have plain text output, use man blabla | col -b
Mike.
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