Re: [TCLUG:10039] Printing man pages

[Scott Dier - dieman <dieman@ringworld.org>]

I would personally pipe the output of man to enscript. :) 

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Ben Beuchler wrote:

> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 00:07:25 -0600 (CST)
> From: Ben Beuchler <insyte@emt-p.org>
> Reply-To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> Subject: [TCLUG:10039] Printing man pages
> 
> 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
> 
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