From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 10 9:37:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 180CD151FC for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 09:37:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA12782; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 04:07:15 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Message-ID: <19991110123638.06840@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 12:36:38 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: Ariel Burbaickij , Sheldon Hearn Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Printing man pages (was: Will the battle be won?) Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <13581.942254619@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Ariel Burbaickij on Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 06:27:53PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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