how to format a manual page for print out?

[Jessica Chou]

how to strip off special characters (e.g. ^H) from a man page?

Thank you.

Jessica

[Stefan Farrelly]

man | inv

[CHRIS_ANORUO]

If you are using vi try "dos2ux badfilename newfilename"

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

Jessica:
you could also try

nroff -man /path/to/man/file | lp (to send to the printer)
nroff -man /path/to/man/file > /var/tmp/outputfile

cheers.

[Devbinder Singh Marway]

Have you got the doc tool on your system
if you have try doc e.g. doc dd
this will create a file in your home dir as
dd.man , which you can print / view etc..

[Rick Garland]

man | col -b | lp -d

The 'col -b' is the key.
is whatever you want from man, i.e. man cat

[Stacey Rippetoe]

I use the following format:
man |lp -d -on