man -t to lpr

[James Helman]

   IF I had lp set up, man -t would give me very beautiful troff
   formatted man pages output to a postscript printer on the network.

I don't believe it would be all THAT beautiful (unless lp(1) is
smarter than I think).  By the time the nroff source has been
formatted into /usr/catman/*/cat1/foo.z, it has lost all the nice
formatting information: bold has been converted to <character>
<backspace> <character>, emphasis has been converted to <underline>
<backspace> <character>.  more(1) is nice enough to display this
gibberish as highlighted text on most terminals or emulators.

If you want nice bold and italics in your hardcopy man pages, your
best bet would probably be xeroxing pages from the hardcopy manual.
;-} However, doing so could violate the copyright notice in the
manuals.  SIDE NOTE: SGI's copyright notice not only forbids
duplication but also calls the manuals' contents "proprietary and
confidential information of SGI" and bars you from dislosing it to
third parties!!!!  SHHH!!!!  Don't tell anyone about lp(1) ;-).

Is that silly, or what?  Another AT&Tism?

Jim Helman
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