printing manpages
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
kdk at daleco.biz
Thu Apr 8 17:20:54 PDT 2004
Chris Hill wrote:
>On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Andrew Elmore wrote:
>
>
>
>>[...] I can't for the life of me figure out how to print a manpage.
>>The closest "man man" gives me is:
>>
>>-t Use /usr/bin/groff -S -man to format the manual page, passing the
>> output to stdout. The output from /usr/bin/groff -S -man may need
>> to be passed through some filter or another before being printed.
>>
>>Any suggestions on what the command line for that filter looks like?
>>
>>
>
>I get good-looking results using, for example,
>
>man -t ipfw | lpr
>
>...or plain-vanilla (but readable) results using
>
>man ipfw | lpr
>
>FWIW, this is with a Postscript printer. HTH.
>
>
Also works with apsfilter; I would have to assume
any printer, therefore.
Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.
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