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From: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to format man pages to lpr --- reasonably?
Date: 16 Oct 1996 14:28:34 GMT
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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In article <326476A4.41C67EA6@apl.washington.edu>,
"Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@apl.washington.edu> writes:
> John Fieber wrote:
>> Ack!
>>
>> Five follups in this thread an apparently not one person bothered to
>> read the man man page! If you have a postscript printer (or
>> ghostscript driving somthing else) all you have to do is:
>>
>> man -t <manpage> | lpr
>>
>
> Does this preprocess with pic, tbl, eqn? The man manpage does not
> discuss this. I stand by my original post.
And just why do you think that it wouldn't?
If you read the man man page, you will discover that tbl is used as a
preprocessor unless something else is specified with the -p option or
the MANROFFSEQ environment variable. There is no reason to believe
that processing with -t would change that, and a quick at the ps
output while man is running confirms this.
-john
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