Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

[Glyn Millington <glyn@glyn.uklinux.net>]

On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 10:12:40PM +0200, thus spake Sven Burgener:
> On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 09:59:55PM +0200, Christoph Groth wrote:
> > Sven Burgener <svenb@bluewin.ch> writes:
> > > How do I properly print out the contents of a manpage?
> > > When I do ":r! man blabla" in vi, I get funny characters at some places.
> > > Using man's --ascii option didn't help.
> 
> > You can use Emacs (Even if this is hard for vi users ;-) ).  Just type
> > M-x man and then write the buffer to a file with C-x w .
> 
> Aaargh. This box is a p90 with little RAM. I want no GUI, nothing fancy, 
> nothing bloaty. ;-)
> Besides I never used *Emacs, so that would take me some time to get 
> into. Also, I like vi and don't need / want anything new now.
> 
> > Another way would be to directly use troff/nroff.
> 
> Which is how? Never done this so please help me out a little.
> 

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.  

HTH

Glyn M






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