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[ILUG] Table in Linux into .doc format

[ILUG] Table in Linux into .doc format

Rory McCann ebelular at gmail.com
Tue Oct 12 19:02:44 IST 2004


On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:52:21 +0100, Chris Higgins
<chris.higgins at darach.ie> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 22:36:43 +0100
> Rory McCann <ebelular at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 22:04:46 +0100, Chris Higgins
> > <chris.higgins at darach.ie> wrote:
> > > yeah-gods... have you seen enscript ?
> > >
> > > Takes text file and generates .rtf
> > >
> > > cat textfile | enscript -w rtf -o t.rtf
> > {{snip}}
> >
> > A quick man check shows it should be enscript -W rtf, not -w
> 
> Not in my man pages
>     -w [lang], --language[=lang]
> 
> luggage:~> enscript --version
> GNU enscript 1.6.4
> 
> Matter of fact, my enscript ( enscript --help ) says
> -w, --language=LANG        set output language to LANG
> -W, --options=APP,OPTION   pass option OPTION to helper application APP
> 
> So - I think I'll stick with my suggestion of '-w' :-)
> >
> > :)
> >
> > Rory McCann

I have 1.6.1, so it must have changed some time from 1.6.1 to 1.6.4.

Rory McCann



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