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Date:      Wed, 10 Nov 1999 12:36:38 -0500
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
To:        Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Printing man pages (was: Will the battle be won?)
Message-ID:  <19991110123638.06840@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911101826180.4196-100000@sun7>; from Ariel Burbaickij on Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 06:27:53PM %2B0100
References:  <13581.942254619@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911101826180.4196-100000@sun7>

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On Wednesday, 10 November 1999 at 18:27:53 +0100, Ariel Burbaickij wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:21:26 +0100, Ariel Burbaickij wrote:
>>
>>> So all this gory details provided about all relevant files do you hope
>>> we will master the problem with man pages on my printer printed correctly?
>>
>> You keep changing the subject line, so it's difficult to follow the
>> thread.  If you have a postscript printer, use groff to print the
>> manpages to your printer, as in
>>
>> 	zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz | groff -mdoc | lpr
>
>    The problem is:I do not use PS-printer i am poor student(insert futher
>    lamentations here ). I use Canon bj200.

  $ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz | nroff -mandoc | lpr

-mandoc will format all man pages; -mdoc only does some of them (-man
will do the others).  Note also nroff instead of groff.

Greg
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