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From: khera@thneed.cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera)
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Subject: Re: How to print man pages nicely?
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Date: 21 Feb 91 21:03:58 GMT
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In-reply-to: weimer@garden.kodak.COM's message of 21 Feb 91 16:55:58 GMT

In article <1991Feb21.165558.20454@ssd.kodak.com> weimer@garden.kodak.COM (Gary Weimer (588-0953)) writes:

   In article <1991Feb21.155747.12018@javelin.es.com>,
   pashdown@javelin.es.com (Pete Ashdown) writes:
   |> 
   |> I'm a bit baffled at how to get 'man' pages to typeset nicely on a
   postscript
   |> printer.  I've tried dinking around with troff and nroff and had very little
   |> success.  Any advice?

   I just use:

   man <topic> | lpr

as long as i can remember, i've used

  man -t <topic>

to get a printed version.  this works quite well on our Sun network,
and also worked on various BSD machines at my previous school.

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