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Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:20:09 +0100 (CET)
From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
Subject: Re: How to get ps from paper.ascii in smm
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On 11-Feb-2002 Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 09:28:03AM +0100, Micke Josefsson wrote:
>> This is probably related to groff but I don'ät see how to do it:)
>> 
>> Anyway, how do I make nice-looking postscript printouts of the texts in 
>> /usr/share/doc/smm/?
>> 
>> Daemonnews had an article for NetBSD claiming that a "make paper.ps" would do
>> the
>> trick but there's no makefile here in FreeBSD.
>> 
>> suggestions are very welcome!
> 
> You can't do it directly from the files normally installed in /usr/share/doc
> since they are just preformatted ascii-files.
> 
> First install the sources.
> Then cd /usr/src/share/doc/smm/06.nfs  (or whichever paper you want)
> Then you do a 'make PRINTERDEVICE=ps' and a nice postscript file will
> be created.  (If you don't want it gzip'ed use 
> 'make PRINTERDEVICE=ps NODOCCOMPRESS=yes' instead.)

OK, thanks. I also noted that the files end up in 

/usr/obj/usr/src/share/doc/smm/...


/Micke



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