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Re: Printing man pages



on Thu, Aug 22, 2002, Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 08:41:35AM -0400, Bodnyk, Bruce W wrote:
> > Can someone tell me the syntax to use to format a man page
> > listing so it can be sent to a printer?
> 
>   man -Tps some-man-page
> 
> ... prints PostScript output that can be piped to lpr or whatever. If
> you're running woody, make sure you have the groff package installed as
> well as groff-base.

I prefer mine 2-up:

   man -Tps foo | mpage -2 | lpr

...but this is a matter of taste, tree karma, and young eyes.

Peace.

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