how to print a man page

Shantanoo Mahajan freebsd at dhumketu.cjb.net
Sat Nov 29 12:21:26 PST 2003


+++ Malcolm Kay [freebsd] [29-11-03 16:14 +1030]:
| On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 15:43, Libby Charles-CCL044 wrote:
| > You could just pipe the output of man directly to lpr:
| >
| > 	man manpage |lpr
| >
| > This produces a great output which I use in my classes all the time.
| >
| 
| If you really think this is 'great output' then if you have a postscript 
| printer (or a print system accepting postscript) try:
| $ man -t manpage | lpr -P PS-Printer
| 
| and compare the difference.
| 
|  Malcolm Kay

If you have konqueror, type the following in address bar

#manpage

Now you have HTML which you can send to printer :-)

Shantanoo


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list