Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 00:14:30 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com> Cc: Gerard Seibert <gerard-seibert@suscom.net>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Printing MAN pages Message-ID: <20050908211430.GE38895@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <54db43990509081350150465ac@mail.gmail.com> References: <Pine.WNT.4.63.0509081012070.3172@Treneq.frvorepbz.arg> <43206857.1010803@daleco.biz> <20050908165328.GB37407@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20050908173646.GO20229@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20050908175519.GA20222@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20050908203203.GP20229@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <54db43990509081350150465ac@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2005-09-08 16:50, Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com> wrote: > In make.conf(5) it says > > > PRINTERDEVICE > (str) The default format for system documentation, depends > on your printer. This can be set to ``ascii'' for simple > printers, or ``ps'' for postscript or graphics printers > with a ghostscript filter, or both. > > > So does PRINTERDEVICE change the default output for groff, or does it > do something else, or nothing at all, and how does it affect your > proposed change? Yes and no. Yes it does affect the output format, but only of the files under /usr/src that use it. I don't think groff uses it all the time: % strings `which groff` | grep PRINTERDEVICE %
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