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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!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to format man pages to lpr --- reasonably? Date: 16 Oct 1996 09:06:59 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5428jj$hat@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <53m1qp$3vq@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <5417s5$t49@cnn.exu.ericsson.se> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E > Bob Keys (rdkeys@unity.ncsu.edu) wrote: (I've missed that posting.) > > > > man <manpage> | a2ps -1 -a -i -m -p | lpr was better but still had bad Ick! That's about the worst suggestion i've seen... This might come useful on a crippled SVR3 where the Mighties didn't allow you to get man page sources and troff, but remember, we've got both. So if you can already print PostScript, simply use: man -t <manpage> | lpr :-) (The -t presumably means ``-troffify''.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)