From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 10 19:27:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54BFF14D22 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:27:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-14-93.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.14.93]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA24838; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:27:37 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA75507; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:02:57 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199911110302.VAA75507@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Ariel Burbaickij , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Will the battle be won? In-reply-to: Message from Sheldon Hearn of "Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:23:39 +0200." <13581.942254619@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:02:57 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sheldon Hearn writes: > > 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 What is the advantage of the above example over: man -t 1 ls | lpr Only thing I can think of immediately is if one wished to print *all* of the man pages the first example would be easier for getting the list of man pages to print. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message