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From: zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont .)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to format man pages to lpr --- reasonably?
Date: 12 Oct 1996 03:59:50 -0700
Organization: ServNet Internet Services, Seattle, WA
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Message-ID: <53ntn6$2g2@itchy.serv.net>
References: <53m1qp$3vq@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <53nf09$kaa@Symiserver2.symantec.com>
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In article <53nf09$kaa@Symiserver2.symantec.com>,
 <tedm@agora.rdrop.com> wrote:
>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



Assuming that your printer is something reasonable such as an Apple postscript-
only printer or an HP with postscript support, you can use 'groff' with the
ps option to generate quite lovely manpages.



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Sean T. Lamont, President / Chief NetNerd, Abstract Software, Inc. (ServNet)  
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