From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 8 20:32:07 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 269F116A41F for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 20:32:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: from kweetal.tue.nl (kweetal.tue.nl [131.155.3.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B14043D49 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 20:32:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kweetal.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0A8113B692; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 22:32:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kweetal.tue.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kweetal.tue.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 96655-02; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 22:32:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.72]) by kweetal.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CED0C13B68F; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 22:32:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from stijn@localhost) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j88KW3BD061269; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 22:32:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stijn) Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 22:32:03 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop To: Giorgos Keramidas , Gerard Seibert , freebsd-questions Message-ID: <20050908203203.GP20229@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Stijn Hoop , Giorgos Keramidas , Gerard Seibert , freebsd-questions References: <43206857.1010803@daleco.biz> <20050908165328.GB37407@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20050908173646.GO20229@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20050908175519.GA20222@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="r5lq+205vWdkqwtk" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050908175519.GA20222@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Bright-Idea: Let's abolish HTML mail! X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at tue.nl Cc: 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 20:32:07 -0000 --r5lq+205vWdkqwtk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 07:55:19PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 07:36:46PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 07:53:28PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > Gerard Seibert wrote: > > > > I am trying to figure out how to print 'man' pages. If I try a simp= le > > > > 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? > > >=20 > > > man -t foo > foo.ps > > >=20 > > > will generate Postscript output, which is a lot better for printing. > >=20 > > Highly useful to know, but shouldn't we update the man page for man(1)? > >=20 > > -t Use /usr/bin/groff -S -man to format the manual page, = passing > > the output to stdout. The output from /usr/bin/groff = -S -man > > may need to be passed through some filter or another b= efore > > being printed. > >=20 > > This does not exactly spell 'output postscript' to me... >=20 > It does if you know that postscript is the default output format of > groff. If one doesn't know what format groff outputs by default, it is > easily learned by reading the groff(1) manpage. True. I'm all in favor of a little bit more userfriendliness in man pages as long as it's not overkill though. How about: -t Generate a Postscript version of the manpage, intended for printing, by using /usr/bin/groff -S -man to format the manual page, passing the output to stdout. The output from /usr/bin/groff -S -man may need to be passed through some filter or another before being printed. That way I can do /print in less and still get some useful hint. I'm no good with {t,g,n}roff and written English, so no patch... --Stijn --=20 "Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or... two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this." -- Special Agent Dale Cooper, "Twin Peaks" --r5lq+205vWdkqwtk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDIJ/DY3r/tLQmfWcRAjudAJ4x0q/dNreRtpllDASCgN8DetNtmgCffMQ8 01xLFi2Ph6wuCqS0luJa+lg= =bzu8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --r5lq+205vWdkqwtk--