Re: man files to text editor
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:14:54PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:07:35PM -0500, Lou Losee wrote:
> > * Gruessle <debian@orces.com> [2003-12-17 12:21]:
> > >
> > > Is there a way I can open man files in a text editor.
> > > I like to print one but have not configured my printer jet.
> > > So I will email it to my other pc.
> > >
> > Try man xxx | col -b > text-filename
>
> This actually should not work, you have to tell man(1) it should send the
> formatted manpage to stdout, instead of messing with the pager.
> Replace `foo' with the desired program name.
>
> $ man --pager cat foo | col -b > text-filename
>
> Getting rid of the Latin-1 characters comes handy when mailing the
> output, too.
>
> $ man --pager cat --ascii foo | col -b > text-filename
>
> Now we want the lines narrower than the default 80 characters (I guess
> this won't work if man(1) is connected to the terminal, so the pipe is
> vital here (that's why we use cat(1) as a pager--to force piping).
>
> $ env COLUMNS=70 man --pager cat --ascii foo | col -b > text-filename
>
> Finally, if you really want to mail it, without any further alterations,
> try this (I just love to make shell one-liners ;-)):
>
> $ env COLUMNS=70 man --pager cat --ascii foo | col -b | mail -s "Subject
> of your choice" your@e-mail.address.com
None of them comes out as nice as my way :-)
$ man -Tps man |ps2pdf - - > man.pdf
Move it to samba share and access it from the windows.
Use acrobat reader and print it with faster windows printer driver.
Nicer fonts too.
Osamu
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