Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 08:56:45 -0500 (CDT) From: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu> To: Pariy@ibs.msk.su, pvl@oskar.nanoteq.co.za Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how can i print man-files? Message-ID: <199704141356.IAA27090@beowulf.utmb.edu>
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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) > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > > > 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 > -- > Pierre_Andre van Leeuwen > Electronic Engineer > -------------------------------------------------------------- > | E-mail : pvl@nanoteq.com | Nanoteq (Pty) Ltd. | > | Ph : +27 (0)12 665-1338 | Specialists in data security | > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790
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