On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 00:10, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > At Fri, 28 Nov 2003 it looks like Antoine Jacoutot composed: > > 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 > > Cool, never saw that method, I've used the following but of > course I end up with an extra file here unless I throw in an rm > command at the end for the file in question. > > man yourchoice | col -b > manpage.txt ; lpr yourchoice.txt > > Or the following script works, you could call it "manp.sh" > > --------------------snip-------------------- > #!/bin/sh > # > echo > echo "Formatting and printing the manpage called $1 " > echo > man $1 | col -b > $1.txt ; lpr $1.txt ; rm -f $1.txt > > echo "Your manpage has been sent to the printer " > echo > > --------------------snip--------------------
This restricts the quality of the output formatting to that achievable on a console. OK if you have only a primative printer but a far cry from the result achieved using Antoine's method; or more conveniently: $ man -t manpage | lpr -P PS-printer In your method the intermediate explicit file is not needed, just pipe the output direct to the printer: $ man manpage | col -b | lpr Malcolm Kay _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"