Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1473 mails)

[uberjon@xxxxxxxxx (Jon Pennington)]

On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Bev wrote:
>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.
>
>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.

TkMan has print?  I didn't see that...*!anyway...

I also found that rman does a nifty job.  You can pipe the output to lots of
different file formats (ASCII, HTML, LaTeX, PS, and more).  The command is a
little lengthy, but there's lots of help in `man rman' ;).


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-=|JP|=-

Jon Pennington             | SuSE Linux 6.1
uberjon@xxxxxxxxx          | Kernel 2.2.7+
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