Hello, On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 05:54:10PM +0000, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: | ?ann 2006-06-25, 20:17:09 (+0200) skrifa?i Jan Willem Stumpel: | > When I want to print a man page, I usually do | > | > man -t command | lpr | > | > The -t option with man formats the page neatly as Postscript. | > But recently I found that instead of the expected man page, | > gibberish is printed (which looks vaguely like Postscript _source_ | > text). | > | > When I do "man -t command > test.ps", then "file test.ps", I get | > the answer "test.ps: awk script text" (instead of the expected | > "Postscript document text"). To make test.ps printable I first | > have to run it through ps2ps or ps2pdf. | > | > Did others see this also? Is it a bug, or some new kind of "feature"? | | This works fine on my machine, debin unstable with man version 2.4.3, | 2005-07-03.
Same here (for an earlier version of man). Could you post the exact command you were trying to look up with man? The output from % man -t ... | od -c | head might be helpful. Here is the output for the ls(1) manual page on my machine. eta [543] $ man --version man, version 2.4.2, 2003-09-20 eta [544] $ man -t ls | od -c | head -4 0000000 % ! P S - A d o b e - 3 . 0 \n % 0000020 % C r e a t o r : g r o f f 0000040 v e r s i o n 1 . 1 8 . 1 \n % 0000060 % C r e a t i o n D a t e : M eta [545] $ man -t ls > /tmp/ls.1.ps eta [546] $ file /tmp/ls.1.ps /tmp/ls.1.ps: PostScript document text conforming at level 3.0 FWIW, you could try running groff explicitly to format the manual page. % man -w ls # locate man page for ls % zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz | groff -man -Tps > /tmp/ls.1.ps Hope that helps. Best regards, -- Zane Dodson ZDodson Consulting, Inc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
