On 03/07/2021 11:08 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings all;
I guess I'm one of the guys that grew up reading the printed word, and to
this day I grasp a howto 10 times better by reading it on paper.
So, how is the best way to get a paper copy of a man page, since man
doesn't seem to have the
On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 11:15, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Its the man page for linuxcnc's pid module that I want a hard copy of.
All the LinuxCNC manpages are available as PDF, probably directly from
the CNC menu on your PC.
Or can be downloaded from
On Monday 08 March 2021 01:07:07 R C wrote:
> On 3/7/21 10:43 PM, Chris Albertson wrote:
> > If you intend to print man pages use the "-t" option and you will
> > get Postscript output that is easier to read than dumb-ASCII.
> >
> > Something like
> >
> > man -t chmod > chmod_manpage.ps
> >
This
On Monday 08 March 2021 00:40:13 Nathan Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 12:11 AM Gene Heskett
wrote:
> > Greetings all;
> >
> > I guess I'm one of the guys that grew up reading the printed word,
> > and to this day I grasp a howto 10 times better by reading it on
> > paper.
> >
> > So,
On Monday 08 March 2021 00:18:01 R C wrote:
> well you could pipe it through lpr.
>
>
> but also, probably easier, you can pipe it to a file.. and then
> print that file.
>
>
> for example for ls:
>
>
> $ man ls > ls-man.txt
>
>
> check ls-man.txt, it should be an ascii/txt file. and you
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 10:09 PM R C wrote:
> > Will generate a Postscript file for the "chmod" command that is formatted
> > for letter-size pages with professional-like typesetting.
>
> you mean like ... bold ?
Here is a sample. It is a man page for the "cp" command I just made using
"man -t
On 3/7/21 10:43 PM, Chris Albertson wrote:
If you intend to print man pages use the "-t" option and you will get
Postscript output that is easier to read than dumb-ASCII.
Something like
man -t chmod > chmod_manpage.ps
Will generate a Postscript file for the "chmod" command that is formatted
If you intend to print man pages use the "-t" option and you will get
Postscript output that is easier to read than dumb-ASCII.
Something like
man -t chmod > chmod_manpage.ps
Will generate a Postscript file for the "chmod" command that is formatted
for letter-size pages with professional-like
On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 12:11 AM Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> I guess I'm one of the guys that grew up reading the printed word, and to
> this day I grasp a howto 10 times better by reading it on paper.
>
> So, how is the best way to get a paper copy of a man page, since man
> doesn't
well you could pipe it through lpr.
but also, probably easier, you can pipe it to a file.. and then print
that file.
for example for ls:
$ man ls > ls-man.txt
check ls-man.txt, it should be an ascii/txt file. and you can print
that.
Ron
On 3/7/21 10:08 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings all;
I guess I'm one of the guys that grew up reading the printed word, and to
this day I grasp a howto 10 times better by reading it on paper.
So, how is the best way to get a paper copy of a man page, since man
doesn't seem to have the ability to redirect its screen output to a
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