From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 28 21:19:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EF1016A4CE for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 21:19:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0384343FEC for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 21:19:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from malcolm.kay@internode.on.net) Received: from beta.home (ppp136-184.lns1.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.136.184])hAT5JTEq062390; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 15:49:33 +1030 (CST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Malcolm Kay Organization: At home To: Bill Schoolcraft , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 15:49:29 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <200311282018.57848.ajacoutot@lphp.org> <20031128132502.K2753@bsd.billschoolcraft.com> In-Reply-To: <20031128132502.K2753@bsd.billschoolcraft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200311291549.29197.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Subject: Re: how to print a man page X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 05:19:38 -0000 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