On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 09:47:31PM -0400, fred smith wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 09:05:21AM +1200, Linux wrote:
> >
> > >From time to time it is good to have printed copies of man pages.
> > when I issue the command "man binary > /path
> > When I do this most of the text works out OK. The headings end up with
> > double or triple characters or have squares between the repeated characters.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a method for converting man pages into straight text
> >
>
> You can print nice typeset copies of manpages (assuming you have
> a printer that can do nice proportional fonts, which most can these
> days) by doing:
>
> man -t foobar
>
> and voila! a nicely formatted page for foobar!
Yeah, well DUH!
Change that to be:
man -t foobar | lpr
with whatever options you need to lpr for your printer.
>
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> Do you not know? Have you not heard?
> The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
> He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.
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