Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!twg!bill
From: bill@twg.bc.ca (Bill Irwin)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: How do you print the man pages without [nt]roff?
Keywords: print manual
Message-ID: <161@twg.bc.ca>
Date: 2 Jun 90 09:32:16 GMT
Organization: TWG The Westrheim Group, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Well,  I have managed to wade my way through most of the "doc" and  "man"
pages  -  even  those that were not ".fmt".  I must say it  way  quite  a
chore.   Now  I have the job of educating users on the proper use of  the
net.   This  will  not  be  possible without  being  able  to  print  the
documentation  for them.  They either can't or won't drop to subshells to
"less"  the right file - even if they could remember where it is  stashed
away.

What I would like to know is - can I get decent hard copy of this without
spending $600-$900 for some nroff/troff software?  I find it a little odd
that  all this lovely software gets transmitted to my system free, but  I
have to spend hundreds of dollars to print the instructions?

I must be missing something.  I hope so.  Please let me know.
-- 
Bill Irwin - TWG The Westrheim Group - Vancouver, BC, Canada
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