From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 29 12:21:26 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 A109F16A4CE for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 12:21:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from dhumketu.homeunix.net (dialpool-210-214-64-125.maa.sify.net [210.214.64.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E84E943FAF for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 12:21:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@dhumketu.cjb.net) Received: (qmail 699 invoked by uid 1001); 29 Nov 2003 19:59:32 -0000 Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 01:29:32 +0530 From: Shantanoo Mahajan To: Malcolm Kay Message-ID: <20031129195932.GA535@dhumketu.homeunix.net> Mail-Followup-To: Malcolm Kay , Libby Charles-CCL044 , Antoine Jacoutot , Ian Todd , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200311291614.08990.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200311291614.08990.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: Hmmm... I dunno X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p11 i386 cc: Libby Charles-CCL044 cc: Antoine Jacoutot cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Ian Todd 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 20:21:26 -0000 +++ Malcolm Kay [freebsd] [29-11-03 16:14 +1030]: | On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 15:43, Libby Charles-CCL044 wrote: | > You could just pipe the output of man directly to lpr: | > | > man manpage |lpr | > | > This produces a great output which I use in my classes all the time. | > | | If you really think this is 'great output' then if you have a postscript | printer (or a print system accepting postscript) try: | $ man -t manpage | lpr -P PS-Printer | | and compare the difference. | | Malcolm Kay If you have konqueror, type the following in address bar #manpage Now you have HTML which you can send to printer :-) Shantanoo