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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.u.washington.edu!root From: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to format man pages to lpr --- reasonably? Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 13:13:32 -0700 Organization: Applied Physics Lab Lines: 46 Message-ID: <325EAA6C.41C67EA6@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <53m1qp$3vq@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: troutmask.apl.washington.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-961004-SNAP i386) To: Bob Keys <rdkeys@unity.ncsu.edu> groff -e -t -p -mdoc man.1 | lpr Bob Keys wrote: > > I would like to print out manual pages on a postscript printer. What is > the best way to do that using man or groff? I was trying: > > man <manpage> | a2ps | lpr but that did not work very well at all. > > man <manpage> | a2ps -1 -a -i -m -p | lpr was better but still had bad > > fits with the backspace and underscores from the man pgm. I can't seem to > find any more options that should properly pass manpages through a2ps. I > would have thought that the -i and -m options would have taken care of that. > Perhaps an intermediate filter of some sort is required? > > If groff were used, I would expect something like: > > zcat /usr/man/man1/man.1.gz | groff -man | lpr to work, but it doesn't. > > man -t etc...., but it also blew up and exited with the signal 11, below. > > Instead it exits /kernel:pid2529(lpd),uid0:exited on signal 11. > > Yet manually groffing the page >man.1.ps and catting the file > /dev/lpt0 > does work. > signal 11 sometimes indicates bad memory. > Any ideas as to what is causing the signal 11 exit? > > Any suggestions for formatting manual pages to a postscript printer? > > Any pointers are appreciated. > > Almost there..... > > Thanks..... Bob Keys, rdkeys@unity.ncsu.edu -- Steve finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/sgk.html