Printing a man page.

Steven W. Orr steveo at syslang.net
Thu Aug 25 20:05:41 UTC 2005


On Thursday, Aug 25th 2005 at 14:42 -0500, quoth Les Mikesell:

=>On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 13:40, Steven W. Orr wrote:
=>
=>> 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.
=>
=>What was wrong with 'man -t' as man man suggests?

Same thing except for the -pte. Some man pages use it. 

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