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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!mayonews.mayo.edu!newsdist.tc.umn.edu!umn.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!sunews!news From: Mark Blackman <markb@met.reading.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: printing man pages in ps format? not ! Date: 3 Nov 1995 16:15:09 GMT Organization: met. dept, univ. of reading Lines: 15 Message-ID: <47df6d$suu@susscsc1.rdg.ac.uk> References: <47bk5n$2ao@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: swpc30.reading.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.12 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-951026-SNA0 i386) X-URL: news:47bk5n$2ao@nntpd.lkg.dec.com probably want something like a) man -t printcap > printcap.ps OR b) gunzip < /usr/share/man/man5/printcap.5.gz | groff -t -b -v -man -T ps > printcap.ps I know which one I prefer... (b is closer to what you appear to be trying to do, a is what you REALLY want to do) mark