Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 21:12:55 +0530 From: Shantanoo <freebsd@dhumketu.cjb.net> To: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> Cc: Andrew Elmore <aelmore@interwoven.com> Subject: Re: printing manpages Message-ID: <20040409154255.GA754@dhumketu.homeunix.net> In-Reply-To: <20040408193736.K26026-100000@frambozen.monochrome.org> References: <20040408193736.K26026-100000@frambozen.monochrome.org>
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+++ Chris Hill [freebsd] [08-04-04 19:40 -0400]: | On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Andrew Elmore wrote: | | > [...] I can't for the life of me figure out how to print a manpage. | > The closest "man man" gives me is: | > | > -t Use /usr/bin/groff -S -man to format the manual page, passing the | > output to stdout. The output from /usr/bin/groff -S -man may need | > to be passed through some filter or another before being printed. | > | > Any suggestions on what the command line for that filter looks like? | | I get good-looking results using, for example, | | man -t ipfw | lpr | | ...or plain-vanilla (but readable) results using | | man ipfw | lpr | | FWIW, this is with a Postscript printer. HTH. | | | -- | Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org | ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] man ipfw | col -bx | less man ipfw | col -bx | lpr
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