Printing a man page.

[Christopher K. Johnson]

Steven W. Orr wrote:

>On Thursday, Aug 25th 2005 at 17:23 +0530, quoth Vikram Goyal:
>
>=>Hello Guys!
>=>
>=>How does one prints a man page with a descent looking font.
>=>
>=>I printed one man page with this command:
>=>man  allec | col -b | ul -t dumb | lpr
>=>
>=>but the output page was in very small font size. How does one control
>=>font here?
>=>
>=>Thanks
>=>-- 
>=>vikram...
>
>Sheesh! I just read all the other answers on how to print man pages. (I 
>should charge for this stuff.)
>
>groff -pte -man manpageFileName | lpr
>       |||
>       || \----------------process with eqn
>       |\------------------process with tbl
>       |-------------------process with pic
>
>groff already defaults to -Tps output.
>
>Then you get the printed output as God intended it.
>
>Try this:
>
>gunzip < /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz | groff -pte -man | lpr
>
>  
>
How did God intend it?  Was knowledge of that intention imparted to you 
personally? ;)

And how does your example requiring knowledge of the man page file and 
use of gunzip and groff with options improve on the following?

man -t topic | lpr


Chris

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