Re: man -t problem

[Olafur Jens Sigurdsson <ojs@klaki.net>]

Þann 2006-06-25, 20:17:09 (+0200) skrifaði 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.

Oli