Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 12:13:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: Random Junk <jsd@gamespot.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how can i print man-files? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970414121257.17836A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199704141719.KAA24439@hudsucker.gamespot.com>
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On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Random Junk wrote: > M. L. Dodson writes: > > Try this for something a little more attractive: > > > > zcat <whatever the file name of the man page in gzipped format is> | \ > > | tbl | groff -mandoc | lpr -P<your postscript printers name> > > > > You DO have ghostscript installed, don't you? And some printer definition > > to handle PostScript files? > > how about this? > > man -t ls | lp > > works for me and is pretty easy to remember. > > you don't need the ghostscript package for this to work. you do need > groff though. How about: % setenv PAGER lp % man -t foo :) Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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