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From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to format man pages to lpr --- reasonably?
Date: 12 Oct 1996 06:48:41 GMT
Organization: Symantec Corp.
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In <53m1qp$3vq@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>, rdkeys@unity.ncsu.edu (Bob Keys) writes:
>After some hair pulling, I finally got my printer set up to where it works.

Assuming your printer is something reasonable such as a HP Laserjet or such
that understands ASCII (and not those horrible Apple postscript-only monstrosities)
you can use:

cat manualpageiwant.1 | nroff -man | col -b | lpr -P myprinterthatiuse

you will find the manual page sources in /usr/share/man or some such.