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Date:      Thu, 8 Sep 2005 19:53:28 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Gerard Seibert <gerard-seibert@suscom.net>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Printing MAN pages
Message-ID:  <20050908165328.GB37407@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>
In-Reply-To: <43206857.1010803@daleco.biz>
References:  <Pine.WNT.4.63.0509081012070.3172@Treneq.frvorepbz.arg> <43206857.1010803@daleco.biz>

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Gerard Seibert wrote:
> I am trying to figure out how to print 'man' pages. If I try a simple
> redirect, such as: "man foo > foo.txt" the new file is loaded with
> control symbols, etc. that are not really printable. I want to save
> the files if possible, and print them out at a later date. It that is
> not possible, how would I go about printing them out in real time?

	man -t foo > foo.ps

will generate Postscript output, which is a lot better for printing.





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