From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 4 17:49:33 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 939F114FC5 for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 17:49:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-15-246.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.15.246]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA24420; Tue, 4 May 1999 19:49:17 -0500 (CDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (nospam.hiwaay.net [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA25008; Tue, 4 May 1999 18:46:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199905042346.SAA25008@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: cjclark@home.com Cc: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), norbert.meissner@daimlerchrysler.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Printing Manpages In-reply-to: Message from "Crist J. Clark" of "Tue, 04 May 1999 09:43:50 EDT." <199905041343.JAA03306@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 18:46:58 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Crist J. Clark" writes: > Another problem is that I don't and will not have a2ps installed on my > system. IIRC, I tried to install a2ps once and had some trouble when > my HDD got to about 108% full. My FreeBSD systems at work aren't > living on high end machines or share space with M$'s disk hogs. Did you notice the a2ps example was missing the -t option to man? I don't believe it will yield the desired results as the text will be monospaced Courier. IMHO, a2ps-4.3 is lean and mean and just right for most things. The ELF binary is a whopping 23,848 bytes. The latest and greatest a2ps was about 1.5MB last time I looked. This sounds like a job for custom troff macros. And for Ghostview (to keep from killing too many trees.) -- 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