[X4U] LPR issue

[Thomas Karns]

On Feb 19, 2005, at 6:53 PM, Richard Nagle wrote:

> problem with lpr:
>  Mac OS X 10.3
>
>  via the terminal was printing out a man page,
>  which did print, however, not correctly; there were
>  extra characters, and some grabage characters...
>
>  How does one fix this?
>
>  Regards-
>  Richard
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Try it like this:  man top | col -b | lpr

Or to output to a file:  man top | col -b > 
/users/username/desktop/man_top.txt

man col  for more information

Tom K.