Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:43:23 +0100 (MET) From: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.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: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911102140570.16628-100000@sun33> In-Reply-To: <19991110153005.34225@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
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On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 10 November 1999 at 20:15:28 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > > 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 > > That depends on how you look at it. Normally you'd use less or more > to look at it, and they convert this junk into bold print, so it's an > advantage not to remove the ^H stuff. > Daemon means obviously seriously with me the suggested method with col -b does not work either.With or without all these bells and whistles such as bold printing. I got same results. > Regards Ariel Burbaickij 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
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