From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 8 14:33:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8D2A16A41F for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 14:33:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from mail.scls.lib.wi.us (mail.scls.lib.wi.us [198.150.40.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94D9343D46 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 14:33:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from [172.26.2.238] ([172.26.2.238]) by mail.scls.lib.wi.us (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j88EXeG1097265; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:33:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Message-ID: <43204AF2.7060800@scls.lib.wi.us> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 09:30:10 -0500 From: Greg Barniskis User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gerard Seibert References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Printing MAN pages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:33:42 -0000 Gerard Seibert wrote: > I am trying to figure out how to print 'man' pages. If I try a simple > redirect, such as: "man foo > foo.txt" the new file is loaded with > control symbols, etc. that are not really printable. I want to save the > files if possible, and print them out at a later date. It that is not > possible, how would I go about printing them out in real time? > Not the best solution for every situation, but when I need hard copy I just go get well formatted versions from the web rather than trying to munge the output from the local system: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi You could save those views as HTML, I suppose. I prefer to always be getting the latest version. I also find that in a pinch (lame printer + no/slow Internet) it works OK to do man foo | lp -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348