-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:11:06 +0100 Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Something I've never seen before - > > If a man page is long and I need to study it, I print it out from > Konqueror (kio slave) which gives a nicely formatted, easy-to-read > output. Today I tried to print out two man pages. One, amanda.conf, > prints perfectly, but the other one, amanda, prints nothing other than > the header line. Nothing seems to make any difference to it. > > I've got by using copy/past and printed out, so it's not a > show-stopper. I just wondered if anyone has seen this sort of thing > before? > > Anne Hi Anne, This is what I use to print and look at man pages. It is a bit easier. #!/bin/bash ## INSTALLATION: ## MAKE A FILE mancon AND PLACE IT IN THE /USR/BIN DIRECTORY, YOU MUST BE ROOT TO DO THIS ## CHMOD IT TO 700 - * CHOWN TO YOUR USERNAME - * (chown user:user /usr/bin/mancon) ## TYPE IN mancon AT THE TERMINAL AND YOU SHOULD SEE "What is the man page?" ## ANY QUESTIONS VISIT HTTP://CODE-HEADS.COM echo "CodeHeads Man Page Conversion" read -p "What is the man page?? " M if [[ $M == "" ]] then echo "Sorry need a MAN page to convert" else man $M | col -b > ~/$M.txt echo; echo "Your file has been saved as $M.txt in your home directory" fi A text file always seems easier to print. :) Hope this helps. - -- Best regards, ~WILL~ Key: http://code-heads.com/keys/ch1.asc Key: http://code-heads.com/keys/ch2.asc Linux Commands: http://code-heads.com/commands Linux Registered User: 406084 (http://counter.li.org/) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEKsUIfw3TK8jhZrsRAu6fAKDPp04X9PClVuba2R6x9o8LU98RagCfQTPg M9afZax91R2CPaHKUdouX6I= =knCO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
