How to print man pages nicely?

Ian Spare ian at ukpoit.co.uk
Mon Feb 25 21:05:25 AEST 1991


In article <1991Feb22.022650.22489 at bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> swamys at copper.ucs.indiana.edu (shankar n swamy) writes:
>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)

I thought that the trick was getting a good 'terminfo' entry for the 
printer , I have done this but on an HP Laser jet.
> 
>  Also, when we are at it, is there a single command that can print
>out the entire on-line manual?
>
WOW !!! Watch out trees !!!


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