Re: [LI] Printing Man pages

["Aditya Deshpande" <adityad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The solution to this problem lies in "col" command
Just say

man so-and-so | col -bx > filename
or
man so-and-so | col -bx > lp0

if you have configured the printer

hope that helps
regards
Aditya Deshpande


| I know this question is on the list for a while last month.
| But I dont have an archieve
| 
| Can any one in the list tell me how to print a Unix Man page.
| Is it possible to convert a single man page to a plain text file....
| 


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