27 Feb
2003
27 Feb
'03
11:20
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:48:52 +0800
Derek Fountain
I vaguely remember someone on this list mentioning a filter program which will take the bolds and other assorted fluff out of, eg., man pages, so they can be printed. I currently use a line like:
zcat /usr/share/man/man3/getopt.3.gz | nroff -man | lpr -Plist
which works fine for my dot matrix printer. However, it'd go a lot quicker if I could get rid of all the backspacing etc. used to print the (superflous to me) emboldening of text.
Can someone remind me what that filter is called?
maybe col ? "man ascii | col -b > ascii.txt" -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation