It's not just ^H's you have to get rid of.
The cleanest way that I have found to convert a man page over to plain text
is:
man -t manpage | ps2ascii | fold -s

It's a lot of work to get text, but it seems to work better than anything
else that I have found.

Brian Cluff

----- Original Message -----

> Another option if you want to get rid of all the ^H's in a
> man page is man manpage | col -b
>
> This will generate plain text output.
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob George [mailto:plug@bobspc.dhs.org]
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 5:13 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: RE: How to print a man file?
>
>
> Eric Richardson
>
> > Whats the easiest way to print a man file. I need to make it a
> > postscript file so I can print it or just turn it into text is okay too.
> > Thanks,
>
> 'man man' yields the -t option, which works if your printer is PostScript
> compatible (or can generate a LOT of wasted paper if not):
>
> man -t man | lpr
>
> If you just want text:
>
> man man | pr | lpr
>
> If your printer does PostScript emulation, you might try:
>
> man -t man | mpage -2or | lpr
>
> This is what I often use to generate two-up pages for saving a bit of
paper.
> See 'man mpage' and 'man lpr' for details on what those do!
>
> - Bob
>
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