Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 12:36:38 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> To: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Printing man pages (was: Will the battle be won?) Message-ID: <19991110123638.06840@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911101826180.4196-100000@sun7>; from Ariel Burbaickij on Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 06:27:53PM %2B0100 References: <13581.942254619@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911101826180.4196-100000@sun7>
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On Wednesday, 10 November 1999 at 18:27:53 +0100, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: >> On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:21:26 +0100, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: >> >>> So all this gory details provided about all relevant files do you hope >>> we will master the problem with man pages on my printer printed correctly? >> >> You keep changing the subject line, so it's difficult to follow the >> thread. If you have a postscript printer, use groff to print the >> manpages to your printer, as in >> >> zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz | groff -mdoc | lpr > > The problem is:I do not use PS-printer i am poor student(insert futher > lamentations here ). I use Canon bj200. $ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz | nroff -mandoc | lpr -mandoc will format all man pages; -mdoc only does some of them (-man will do the others). Note also nroff instead of groff. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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