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+++ Chris Hill [freebsd] [08-04-04 19:40 -0400]:
| On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Andrew Elmore wrote:
| 
| > [...] I can't for the life of me figure out how to print a manpage.
| > The closest "man man" gives me is:
| >
| > -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 before being printed.
| >
| > Any suggestions on what the command line for that filter looks like?
| 
| I get good-looking results using, for example,
| 
| man -t ipfw | lpr
| 
| ...or plain-vanilla (but readable) results using
| 
| man ipfw | lpr
| 
| FWIW, this is with a Postscript printer. HTH.
| 
| 
| --
| Chris Hill               chris@monochrome.org
| **                     [ Busy Expunging <|> ]

man ipfw | col -bx | less
man ipfw | col -bx | lpr