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Date:      Sat, 29 Nov 2003 15:49:29 +1030
From:      Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
To:        Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to print a man page
Message-ID:  <200311291549.29197.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
In-Reply-To: <20031128132502.K2753@bsd.billschoolcraft.com>
References:  <web-188788669@mail01.infosat.net> <200311282018.57848.ajacoutot@lphp.org> <20031128132502.K2753@bsd.billschoolcraft.com>

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On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 00:10, Bill Schoolcraft wrote:
> At Fri, 28 Nov 2003 it looks like Antoine Jacoutot composed:
> > On Friday 28 November 2003 20:10, Ian Todd wrote:
> > > I have installed a local printer on /dev/lp0. I want to
> > > print a man page how do i do that? Will it also fit onto
> > > the page? i dont need to setup the size of my page?Thanks.
> >
> > $ groff -Tps -man /path/to/man/page/man.1 | lpr -P PS-Printer
>
> Cool, never saw that method, I've used the following but of
> course I end up with an extra file here unless I throw in an rm
> command at the end for the file in question.
>
> man yourchoice | col -b > manpage.txt ; lpr yourchoice.txt
>
> Or the following script works, you could call it "manp.sh"
>
> --------------------snip--------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> echo
> echo "Formatting and printing the manpage called $1 "
> echo
> man $1 | col -b > $1.txt ; lpr $1.txt ; rm -f $1.txt
>
> echo "Your manpage has been sent to the printer "
> echo
>
> --------------------snip--------------------

This restricts the quality of the output formatting to that
achievable on a console. OK if you have only a primative printer
but a far cry from the result achieved using Antoine's method;
or more conveniently:

$ man -t manpage | lpr -P PS-printer

In your method the intermediate explicit file is not needed, just
pipe the output direct to the printer:

$ man manpage | col -b | lpr=20

Malcolm Kay



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