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From: Random Junk <jsd@gamespot.com>
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Subject: Re: how can i print man-files?
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M. L. Dodson writes:
> 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?

how about this?

man -t ls | lp

works for me and is pretty easy to remember.

you don't need the ghostscript package for this to work.  you do need
groff though.

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Jon Drukman      jsd@gamespot.com             SpotMedia Communications
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