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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!knews.uk0.vbc.net!newsfeed.easynet.co.uk!easynet-uk!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!mr.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!news.alt.net!news1.alt.net!news.serv.net!not-for-mail From: zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont .) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to format man pages to lpr --- reasonably? Date: 12 Oct 1996 03:59:50 -0700 Organization: ServNet Internet Services, Seattle, WA Lines: 21 Message-ID: <53ntn6$2g2@itchy.serv.net> References: <53m1qp$3vq@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <53nf09$kaa@Symiserver2.symantec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: itchy.serv.net In article <53nf09$kaa@Symiserver2.symantec.com>, <tedm@agora.rdrop.com> wrote: >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 Assuming that your printer is something reasonable such as an Apple postscript- only printer or an HP with postscript support, you can use 'groff' with the ps option to generate quite lovely manpages. -- Sean T. Lamont, President / Chief NetNerd, Abstract Software, Inc. (ServNet) - Internet access * WWW hosting * TCP/IP * UNIX * NEXTSTEP * WWW Development - email: lamont@abstractsoft.com WWW: http://www.serv.net "...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff that happens". - H. Simpson