On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 05:47:31PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 06 April 2014 06:54:53 Chris Bannister wrote: > > $ man dmesg > > $ man dmesg > text.txt
That produces the same result. IOW 'man dmesg' and 'man dmesg > text.txt' followed by 'less text.txt' is no different. > You will get a text file that you can read properly, and even change > the font if you want to. Ahh!, so you can open text.txt in a word processor? Have you seen: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch11.en.html#_pretty_print_a_manual_page e.g. man -Tps dmesg > file.ps -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140407051633.GD6561@tal