On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 11:41:32PM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > OK. The trick is to get "man" to output in PostScript format: > man -t will do it. > > Then use the utility "psnup" (one of the GNU pstools package.). > It will print two or more pages of the man output onto one page, > thus saving some paper. > > man -t fetchmail | psnup -2 | lpr > > will print out your fetchmail man pages with two 'pages' to a > sheet.
Thanks for the tip. Also thanks to all who replied with something similar. I will keep it for later reference, but I was merely interested in getting the contents of a manual page in plain text, so that I can can quote something from a man page when I compose a mail with mutt / vim. "zcat /path/to/man/page.gz | nroff -man" seems to do what I want. If there's anything better / simpler, I'd like to hear about it. :) Thanks to all Sven
