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From: hudgens@sun13.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Hudgens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: info and man pages
Message-ID: <2695@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 91 04:19:53 GMT
References: <1991Apr8.011454.6181@ms.uky.edu>
Organization: SCRI, Florida State University
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In article <1991Apr8.011454.6181@ms.uky.edu> paul@wolf.ccs.uky.edu (Paul Linton) writes:
>A while ago I thought I saved a posting describing the technique for
>extracting the man pages from info and placing them in the /usr/man/*
>directories.  I've searched all over and cannot find the posting.
>

Semi-related question.  The ascii form of the man page and many info
documents in general (either printed from under info, or viewed using
man) leaves alot to be desired in terms of formatting, etc.
When viewed under info -g, the boxes drawn around certain strings 
(such as flags, etc) tends to highlight them, so that they
stand out.  I find it somewhat more difficult to read 
the straight ascii forms, in comparison to other UNIX's 
man pages or customer printed documentation.  Is there
any way to get the fonts/boldface/etc you would if you were doing 
something like:   
    troff -man .... | lpr -t 
on a Sun, SGI, or a Ultrix box?

Thanks.
JHH
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Jim Hudgens		Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
hudgens@sun13.scri.fsu.edu