On Wednesday 29 March 2006 18:34, CodeHeads wrote: > 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. > Hi, Will. As you know, copy and paste from a terminal output of a man page takes a heck of a lot of cleaning up - which I presume is the point of your script. Copy and paste from the kioslave output saves all that and can be printed from any text editor. I was just curious as to why one man page would display correctly yet refuse to format for printing. I've done it through the kioslave for many man pages without a problem. If you've never tried it, in Konqueror's address bar, just enter man:whatever. Anne
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