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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!nsw1.news.telstra.net!sa.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!knews.uk0.vbc.net!newsfeed.easynet.co.uk!easynet-uk!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!Symiserver2.symantec.com!news From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to format man pages to lpr --- reasonably? Date: 12 Oct 1996 06:48:41 GMT Organization: Symantec Corp. Lines: 11 Message-ID: <53nf09$kaa@Symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <53m1qp$3vq@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> Reply-To: tedm@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: shiva2.central.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 In <53m1qp$3vq@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>, rdkeys@unity.ncsu.edu (Bob Keys) writes: >After some hair pulling, I finally got my printer set up to where it works. Assuming your printer is something reasonable such as a HP Laserjet or such that understands ASCII (and not those horrible Apple postscript-only monstrosities) you can use: cat manualpageiwant.1 | nroff -man | col -b | lpr -P myprinterthatiuse you will find the manual page sources in /usr/share/man or some such.