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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [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" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
