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From: kientzle@netcom.com
Subject: Re: How to format man pages to lpr --- reasonably?
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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 19:15:50 GMT
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This worked for me:
zcat .../man.1.gz | groff -man -Tps | lpr
Alternatively, you could save a lot of paper, and buy the 4.4BSD books
from O'Reilly, which already have most of the BSD man pages in them.
That way, you only need print out the FreeBSD-specific pages as you
need them.
- Tim Kientzle
In article <53m1qp$3vq@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>,
Bob Keys <rdkeys@unity.ncsu.edu> 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:
>
> zcat /usr/man/man1/man.1.gz | groff -man | lpr