Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:15:28 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, 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: <19991110201528.C319@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <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> <3829C558.A611C815@3-cities.com>
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On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 11:19:52AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > 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 > Hmm, but that way you get all the double printing stuff: N^HNA^HAM^HME^HE p^Hpp^Hpp^Hp - Point to Point Protocol (a.k.a. user-ppp) Try: zcat /usr/share/man/man8/ppp.8.gz | nroff -mandoc | col -b > /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 -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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