Printing MAN pages

[Greg Barniskis]

Stijn Hoop wrote:
[snip... sorry about the attributions]
>>>
>>>How about:
>>>
>>>	-t	Generate a Postscript version of the manpage, intended for
>>>		printing, by using /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.
>>>
>>>That way I can do /print in less and still get some useful hint.
>>
>>You all know that groff is thirdparty software, right?  We have to take
>>this with the groff developers, if the change is ever going to be
>>imported in FreeBSD.
> 
> 
> Hmm, no I didn't realize that. Guess that's too much work for such a minor
> change :(

Except that (if I read the thread right) the proposed change is 
actually to the man page for man, not the man page for groff. ;)

Might suffer similar "ownership" and maintenance issues, but I doubt 
it. If man's not part of the native BSD core, what is?

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