Printing MAN pages

[Chuck Swiger]

Gerard Seibert wrote:
> I am trying to figure out how to print 'man' pages. If I try a simple 
> redirect, such as: "man foo > foo.txt" the new file is loaded with 
> control symbols, etc. that are not really printable. I want to save the 
> files if possible, and print them out at a later date. It that is not 
> possible, how would I go about printing them out in real time?

"man -t man > man.ps" will generate a PostScript version of the manpage and 
save it to the file man.ps.  Read up on groff/gtroff if you need some other format.

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-Chuck