Re: [TCLUG:10039] Printing man pages

[sos@skypoint.com (Steve Siegfried)]

Ben Beuchler wrote:
> 
> I would like to be able to print out a man page or two for some quiet
> reading by the fire.  Unfortunately, the are printed in some sort of
> markup language.  As near as I can tell from the config files and other
> man pages, it's something designed for groff.  So, thinking quickly, I
> tried to use groff to format them for postscript, which my printer will
> support.  No dice.  Came out rather... funky.  Does anyone know a good way
> to do this?  I would prefer to be able to print with mpage or something
> similar so I don't run off 20 pages of text.
> 
> Ben

Yeah, try a script like:

	> #!/bin/ksh
	> man -t $* | mpage -2 | lpr

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