[geeks] Man -> paper

Jochen Kunz jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de
Sat Jan 22 03:50:35 CST 2005


On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 02:43:15 -0500
Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:

> It seems that Irix ships formatted rather than unformatted man pages,
> which would prevent my from using troff/nroff/groff directly.
That is the problem. Without unformatted man pages somthing like
man man | a2ps -2
may be the best way to get it on paper.

On NetBSD something like
groff -mdoc /usr/share/man/man1/man.1 | lpr
will get you there.
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       Jochen

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