[Novalug] man pages
geoffm@companionway.net
geoffm@companionway.net
Wed Nov 24 12:57:09 EST 2010
This may have been mentioned already - I will apologize if I am an
repeating earlier suggestion.
To print man pages I have always used the "-t" option on man - eg:
man -t man | lp
This will print out the man page for the man utility in postscript
format and pipe it to lp (your printer)
Geoff
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Novalug] man pages
> From: Jeff Stoner <leapfrog@freeshell.org>
> Date: Wed, November 24, 2010 2:47 pm
> To: John Holland <jbholland@gmail.com>
> Cc: novalug@calypso.tux.org
>
>
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, John Holland wrote:
> > there used to be a X man page reader that would format the text nicely,
> > I think it was called Xman. I don't recall seeing it recently though. Is
> > it still around?
> >
>
> xman exists on my Ubuntu 10.10 system (from x11-apps package). It's not in
> the xorg-x11-apps rpm for Redhat/CentOS.
>
> --Jeff
>
> "You cannot unsay a cruel word." - Unknown
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