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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Printing man pages
Date: 27 Sep 1995 23:20:41 +0100
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Sean Kelly <kelly@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> wrote:

>>zcat /usr/share/man/manX/XXX.X.gz | tbl | groff -mandoc |\
>>	 lpr -P<postscript-printer>
>
>How about
>
>	man -t <manpage> | lpr -P<postscript-printer>

Nah, it's too simple, too few pipe operators!

<:)
-- 
cheers, J"org

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