Printing MAN pages

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Thu Sep 8 09:53:38 PDT 2005


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 foo > foo.ps

will generate Postscript output, which is a lot better for printing.




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