Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 23:13:30 -0600 From: Libby Charles-CCL044 <Charles.S.Libby@motorola.com> To: "'Malcolm Kay'" <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>, Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@lphp.org>, Ian Todd <isa@mailbox.co.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: how to print a man page Message-ID: <370596D46C9BD711B61A00065BF365888A179D@il06exm12>
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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. Now if you need it to be put into another document for a class for example, you can just man manpage > filename And the output is formated in text. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Malcolm Kay Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 11:09 PM To: Antoine Jacoutot; Ian Todd Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to print a man page On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 05:48, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Friday 28 November 2003 20:10, Ian Todd wrote: > > I have installed a local printer on /dev/lp0. I want to print a man > > page how do i do that? Will it also fit onto the page? i dont need > > to setup the size of my page?Thanks. > > $ groff -Tps -man /path/to/man/page/man.1 | lpr -P PS-Printer > This is making hard work of it. You need to first find the path to the man page; but man itself is capable of preparing a PS output: $ man -t manpage | lpr -P PS-Printer Malcolm Kay _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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