From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 8 22:37:42 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 9EF3F16A41F for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 22:37:42 +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 3BFAD43D45 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 22:37:41 +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 j88MbUG1014761; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:37:30 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Message-ID: <4320BC57.4080006@scls.lib.wi.us> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 17:33:59 -0500 From: Greg Barniskis User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stijn Hoop References: <43206857.1010803@daleco.biz> <20050908165328.GB37407@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20050908173646.GO20229@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20050908175519.GA20222@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20050908203203.GP20229@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20050908204628.GC38895@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20050908204803.GQ20229@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050908204803.GQ20229@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , Gerard Seibert , 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 22:37:42 -0000 Stijn Hoop wrote: [snip... sorry about the attributions] >>> >>>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. >> >>You all know that groff is thirdparty software, right? We have to take >>this with the groff developers, if the change is ever going to be >>imported in FreeBSD. > > > Hmm, no I didn't realize that. Guess that's too much work for such a minor > change :( Except that (if I read the thread right) the proposed change is actually to the man page for man, not the man page for groff. ;) Might suffer similar "ownership" and maintenance issues, but I doubt it. If man's not part of the native BSD core, what is? -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348