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From: lih@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Andrew "Fuz" Lih)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Printing NeXT UNIX documentation
Summary: Use ptroff
Message-ID: <1990May5.190057.22970@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 5 May 90 19:00:57 GMT
References: <1990May4.154227.11719@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: lih@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Andrew "Fuz" Lih)
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In article <1990May4.154227.11719@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> judge@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Peter Judge) writes:
>Could anyone tell me the best way to print the NeXT UNIX documentation on
>the laserprinter? I'm not a UNIX expert so I'll need the details about how to
>deal with ptroff and the like., etc.
>
>I'd like to be able to spiral bind the result, so the printout should
>have a wide left margin. Also, is there some natural
>order to the documentation, or will it just be a pile of man pages?

>judge@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Peter Judge)

     The best way to do it is to find out where the unformatted troff file
     is and use that with ptroff.  Let's say I wanted to print the man page
     for 'find' to the printer called 'netnp':

      $ ptroff -man -Pnetnp /usr/man/man1/file.1

     This uses the -man macro package and prints to the specified NeXT
     laser printer.

     Hope this helps!

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