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From: rich@boreas.whoi.edu
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Subject: Re: How to print man pages nicely?
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.210230.4241@netnews.whoi.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 91 21:02:30 GMT
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In article <1991Feb21.165558.20454@ssd.kodak.com> weimer@ssd.kodak.com 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
>
>Assuming your printer can handle the highlight control characters.
>
>weimer@ssd.kodak.com ( Gary Weimer )


Surely this just prints the nroff-ed man pages....what you want to do is

1) find the path to your particular topic, usually something like

     /user/man/man<sec>/<topic>.<sec>
     
     
    for topic(sec) (i.e. read(1) ). grep can be useful here.
    
2) %troff -man -t  /user/man/man<sec>/<topic>.<sec>  > outfile
   %lpr -t outfile
   
   or
   
   %troff -man -t  /user/man/man<sec>/<topic>.<sec>  | lpr -t
   
   
   
   
   
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