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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!recepsen.aa.msen.com!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Printing man pages Date: 24 Sep 1995 23:14:54 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <444l8u$3u6@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <44130k$jgf@news.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mikhail Teterin <mi@cs.bu.edu> wrote: >How to do it the nicest way possible? There are two places I'd like to print >at -- at home and/or at work. At home, I have HP500C -- prints underlined >words Ok, but ignores bolding (printing a character second time does not >make it any BBOOLLDDEERR on this printer). At work, I'll have to >ftp files to WinNT machine and print it from there (using notepad/write/word), >because SAMBA does not communicate very well with the printer on the net -- >it schedules the print-jobs, but the never get printed )-: Try filtering the output through ul(1). Perhaps you could setup a special termcap entry for your printer that handles underline and standout mode. >Is PostScript my only alternative? Thanks! Certainly the best one. I haven't printed a man page from nroff output for years now. You lose much of the attributes. Just in case: zcat /usr/share/man/manX/XXX.X.gz | tbl | groff -mandoc |\ lpr -P<postscript-printer> -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)