Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 09:46:11 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: fabry@panam.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing out man pages Message-ID: <199810021646.JAA15550@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <13c301bdee18$e77740e0$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org>
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>Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 10:25:36 -0500 >From: "Alain G. Fabry" <fabry@panam.edu> >When I try to print out man pages, I get lots of junk, mainly ^H characters. >How can I print out man pages which will be legible? >Have postcript printer and I'am using a2ps to convert Ascii to PS. >Thanks, Ummm.... As long as the generated PostScript is properly interpreted by your printer, I think the results from: man -t [topic in question] | lpr look a lot nicer. (This is assuming that you have groff & friends installed, of course.) (Reason for the caveat up there about the "generated PostScript" is that it seems that while some (most?) man pages print OK, the man page for (e.g.) "ps" doesn't get handled properly on the network-connected LaserJet I normally use here. ghostview displays it OK, but even if I manually generate the PostScript (by invoking groff directly) & play some games to force it to deal with maximal braindamage, the printer just pretends nothing happened. Same thing happened with some of the amanda man pages, so I ended up building amanda at home & generating the man pages there -- that was a SPARC/Solaris 2.6 box.) david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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