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From: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu>
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To: Pariy@ibs.msk.su, pvl@oskar.nanoteq.co.za
Subject: Re: how can i print man-files?
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Try this for something a little more attractive:

zcat <whatever the file name of the man page in gzipped format is> | \
  | tbl | groff -mandoc | lpr -P<your postscript printers name>

You DO have ghostscript installed, don't you?  And some printer definition
to handle PostScript files?

Bud Dodson

> From owner-freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org  Mon Apr 14 07:50:58 1997
> From: Pierre Van Leeuwen <pvl@oskar.nanoteq.co.za>
> Subject: Re: how can i print man-files?
> To: Pariy@ibs.msk.su (Pariy Semion)
> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 14:24:39 +0200 (SAT)
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-Questions)
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> > 
> >      hi!
> >      
> >      how can i print man-files? 
> >      
> >      Semion Pariy
> > 
> 
> This is sloppy, but it works for me :)
> e.g.:
> 
> man ls > ls.txt
> a2ps ls.txt  
> 
> pierre
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> Pierre_Andre van Leeuwen
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