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Date:      Sun, 30 Nov 2003 01:29:32 +0530
From:      Shantanoo Mahajan <freebsd@dhumketu.cjb.net>
To:        Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
Cc:        Ian Todd <isa@mailbox.co.za>
Subject:   Re: how to print a man page
Message-ID:  <20031129195932.GA535@dhumketu.homeunix.net>
In-Reply-To: <200311291614.08990.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
References:  <200311291614.08990.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>

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+++ 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



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