[geeks] Man -> paper

Mike Hebel nimitz at nimitzbrood.com
Sat Jan 22 06:20:15 CST 2005


I've always just used:

man foo | lpr -P bar

Seems to come out fine.

On Jan 22, 2005, at 1:43 AM, Joshua Boyd wrote:

> How would one go about getting a man page printed out?
>
> I see a reference to using the -t flag for man, but that just puts out 
> a
> text file with graphics charaters in them, not poscript.
>
> It seems that Irix ships formatted rather than unformatted man pages,
> which would prevent my from using troff/nroff/groff directly.
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