Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 11:19:52 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing man pages (was: Will the battle be won?) Message-ID: <3829C558.A611C815@3-cities.com> References: <13581.942254619@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911101826180.4196-100000@sun7> <19991110123638.06840@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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. I vote this hint as the best of the day. I have wanted to print man pages for 8 months but it never had a high enough priority. It remained a low level gripe. I could print Windows help files but not FreeBSD. I wanted a hard copy of the user-ppp man page printed and nothing worked. I don't have a ps printer. If it had been a high enough bother, I would have asked the list but it never made it that high. I did a zcat /usr/share/man/man8ppp.8.gz | nroff -mandoc > /usr4/ppp.txt and I had a text version of ppp(8) on my /usr4 fs. Thanks, Kent > > 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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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