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- MANPRINT was a quick hack I through together to print UNIX-style manual pages
- I downloaded from the mainframe to my PC. If you've ever tried this:
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- man man > man
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- And downloaded the resulting text file and then tried to print it, you
- know that it takes FOREVER. All those bold words.
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- The UNIX manual pages use backspaces and repetitive characters (exactly four)
- to simulate bold characters and words on any dumb ASCII printer. This makes
- them fairly universal, but a pain to print on your home printer.
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- MANPRINT will take out those bold words. Sorry. No more bold words in your
- manual pages, but I think the time saved printing them will be worth it.
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- This is a brute force hack. No command line arguments. Files are given via
- redirection. If you have malloc.man UNIX manual page file you want to print,
- use MANPRINT like this:
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- manprint < malloc.man > malloc.out
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- Or substitute your favorite output file name for malloc.out.
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- That's all there is to it. Code is included and a project file for Borland
- C++. The code's undocumented: it's pretty straight forward and simple.
-
- Questions, comments, or if you just want to say hi, mail to:
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- Grant Boggs
- boggs@a.cs.okstate.edu
- Oklahoma State University
- Stillwater, Oklahoma
-