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Re: Printing man pages



On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 01:18:21AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| 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

FYI if you use CUPS that effect can be achived via

    man -Tps foo | lp -o number-up=2

-D

-- 
The wise in heart are called discerning,
and pleasant words promote instruction.
        Proverbs 16:21
 
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