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From: cliff@mneme.psych.nwu.edu (Cliff Chaput)
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Subject: Re: Printing NeXT UNIX documentation
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Date: 5 May 90 20:57:45 GMT
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To quote lih@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Andrew "Fuz" Lih) in article <1990May5.190057.22970@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>:
>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.
>
>     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

Or, just use the -t option in man.

	$ man -t netnp

This should send the man page, all ptroffed and everything, to the
standard printer.

Cliff Chaput
Mneme Project, NU Psych. Dept.
cliff@mneme.psych.nwu.edu