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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net>
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Subject: Re: Will the battle be won? 
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On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:02:57 CST, David Kelly wrote:

> > 	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

The above prints PostScript, which is much prettier, but assumes that
you have a PS printer.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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