How to print man pages nicely?

Vick Khera khera at thneed.cs.duke.edu
Fri Feb 22 08:03:58 AEST 1991


In article <1991Feb21.165558.20454 at ssd.kodak.com> weimer at garden.kodak.COM (Gary Weimer (588-0953)) writes:

   In article <1991Feb21.155747.12018 at javelin.es.com>,
   pashdown at javelin.es.com (Pete Ashdown) writes:
   |> 
   |> I'm a bit baffled at how to get 'man' pages to typeset nicely on a
   postscript
   |> printer.  I've tried dinking around with troff and nroff and had very little
   |> success.  Any advice?

   I just use:

   man <topic> | lpr

as long as i can remember, i've used

  man -t <topic>

to get a printed version.  this works quite well on our Sun network,
and also worked on various BSD machines at my previous school.

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