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Re: man pages in wordpad



On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, dorit ben shalom wrote:

> I bought the only HP printer around that is not very likely
> to have a linux driver anytime soon.
> So I find myself printing man pages in wordpad.
> They turn out OK apart from boldface (?)
> where every character c turns into
> \Box c \Box c.

by the way, the _simple_ conversion for man pages is:

man blabla | col -b

this will remove all the annoying characters, and give you a clear-text
man pages (while you loose bold-face effect). 

guy


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