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Re: [TCLUG:10039] Printing man pages



Cool.  Thanks!

Ben

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On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Steve Siegfried wrote:

> 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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> 
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