In a message dated: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 17:09:38 EDT
"Kenneth E. Lussier" said:
Geoff Allsup wrote:
To actually print to my Laserjets or Deskjets ("standard" RH6 printool
setup), I use:
man -t name | lpr
The printouts have all the formatting, paging, bolding you'd expect...
I used to do
a2ps will print man pages in readable form and man2html will convert it to
html.
On 20 Apr 2000, at 14:16, csmith wrote:
Just when it seems that something in Linux might do what I think it
might. wahm...
I have no printer on my linux machines, so I emailed my self a copy of a
man
Generally (and users of other Unices can comment), the 'man'
command actually reads in the raw man page info, (which, in
the old days was written in nroff format), and processes it
and spits out the stuff you see in your xterm window. Note
that in a lot of cases, this may include ANSI characters
Bayard Coolidge USG ZKO3-3/S20 wrote:
Generally (and users of other Unices can comment), the 'man'
command actually reads in the raw man page info, (which, in
the old days was written in nroff format), and processes it
and spits out the stuff you see in your xterm window. Note
that in a
In a message dated: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 15:50:18 EDT
Jeffry Smith said:
Alas, I tried the man df | lpr and got junk on a Laserjet (printed a
bunch of characters on the right hand side of the page)
H, I'm betting your printer configuration is set up improperly.
I hear you guys at Mission
I used to do this, but then I noticed that I would lose words off the
end of the page. I also prefer postscript because it looks nicer.
Kenny
Geoff Allsup wrote:
To actually print to my Laserjets or Deskjets ("standard" RH6 printool
setup), I use:
man -t name | lpr
The printouts have
Paul Lussier wrote:
In a message dated: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 15:50:18 EDT
Jeffry Smith said:
Alas, I tried the man df | lpr and got junk on a Laserjet (printed a
bunch of characters on the right hand side of the page)
H, I'm betting your printer configuration is set up improperly.
I
I've found I like a:
man df | enscript -2rG
gives a nice compressed file (2 pages per page, landscape), with
header.
"Kenneth E. Lussier" wrote:
I used to do this, but then I noticed that I would lose words off the
end of the page. I also prefer postscript because it looks nicer.
Kenny
man -t command or whatevermanning out.ps
This will produce output as postscript..
- Original Message -
From: csmith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 2:16 PM
Subject: Printing a MAN page
Just when it seems that something in Linux might
Subject: Re: Printing a MAN page
The best way to print a man page is to work from the man src; not the
roff'd output. e.g., if you want to print the man page for bash
groff -pte -man /usr/man/man1/bash.1 | lpr
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