How to print man pages nicely?
shankar n swamy
swamys at copper.ucs.indiana.edu
Fri Feb 22 13:26:50 AEST 1991
In article <1991Feb21.165558.20454 at ssd.kodak.com> weimer at ssd.kodak.com writes:
>
>|> I'm a bit baffled at how to get 'man' pages to typeset nicely on a
>postscript
>I just use:
>
>man <topic> | lpr
>
>Assuming your printer can handle the highlight control characters.
>
>weimer at ssd.kodak.com ( Gary Weimer)
There should be some sort of nroff2ps program that would
do it, so that it can be eventually printed on a ps printer.
Once in the post-script format, you get more than just highlightings.
Also, when we are at it, is there a single command that can print
out the entire on-line manual?
Thanks!
shankar swamy
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