[Novalug] man question

Sean McGowan spmcgowan@gmail.com
Thu Feb 19 16:59:02 EST 2015


nm.  i just saw the -t.  i did not know that man had that option.


On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Jon LaBadie via Novalug
<novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 01:45:27PM -0500, Sean McGowan wrote:
>> sure, but it is not as nice (pretty output).  also, i would pipe it
>> through  col -b prior to lpr.
>
> Why would you want to use col on a typeset, postscript document?
>
> jl
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Jon LaBadie via Novalug
>> <novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:53:03PM -0500, Sean McGowan via Novalug wrote:
>> >> Here is an example for ls.
>> >>
>> >> $ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz | groff -Tps -man | lpr -P YourPrinterName
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > That could typically be shortened to:
>> >
>> >   $ man -t ls | lpr
>> >
>> > Jon
>> >
>> >> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Charlie Howe via Novalug
>> >> <novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:
>> >> > List,
>> >> >
>> >> > I want to print a lengthy man page. (In case you are wondering what I have
>> >> > in mind, it's Lowriter.) Isn't there a program that does that for me?
>> >> >
>> >> > Charlie
>> >> >
>> >> >
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