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On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Derek D. Martin wrote:
>
> =>At some point hitherto, Steven W. Orr hath spake thusly:
> =>> gunzip < /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz | groff -pte -man | lpr
> =>
> =>This is essentially identical to Matt's man -t bash, only with a lot
> =>more typing.
>
> Not at all. When you pipe man to lpr all you get is typewriter font going
> to the printer, same as what you see on the screen.
That was Ben's original way. My way was to add the '-t' flag which,
from "man man":
-t Use /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc to format the man-
ual page, passing the output to stdout. The output
from /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc may need to be
passed through some filter or another before being
printed.
BTW, on some Unixen (Solaris maybe) '-t' will cause man to output
directly to your default printer instead of the screen. I can't remember
if this behavior can be changed, but it's worth noting if you ever want to
print man pages from something other than Linux.
> My way, you are producing a mucgh more attractive PostScript which uses
> proportional fonts and uses different ones for the different components of
> the document. Try this
Actually, I just wasted six sheets of paper to prove a point. On my
system at least, these two methods produce *exactly* the same output. So
mine wins, 'cus it's shorter. :-P
- --
-Matt
Because inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
-- Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures"
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