Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1473 mails)

[bashley@xxxxxxx (Bev)]

Tom Taylor wrote:
> 
> Hi fellow Tuxers:
>         Not an earthshaking problem but, does anyone know of a way to save man
> pages without the display formatting (highlight, color, etc.)?  I want to
> print it out from my as yet unsupported by Linux printer which is on my
> WinNT box.
>         When I save it to a file (man taper >taper.txt) it includes all the
> display formatting commands which of course show up in the printed copy.
> The printer is a Canon BJC-5000 which I use for "B" size Autocad drawings
> but doesn't work under Linux yet.

If you're in X, Tkman might print nicely for you -- at least it has a
print function.  It's certainly a lot easier to read than the normal man
formatting, even in an xterm window, but I've never tried printing with
it.


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Cheers,
Bev  
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