Man page oddity

Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Wed Mar 29 20:36:25 UTC 2006


Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 March 2006 19:44, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
>>But, but, but...  Don't you really want the nice typeset version
>>from 'man -t ...'?  And you should be able to "...|lpr" instead
>>of bothering with files.
>>
> 
> All that gave me was a great scroll of gobbledegook!  Of course, I could 

It is a postscript file! It can be directly piped to lpr, or
saved to disc and viewed with ghostscript.

Mike
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