[LUG] printing man pages

[Kai Hendry <hendry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:18:07AM +0000, jon davey wrote:
> Hi, I've just set up a printer in Mandrake 9.0 so that I could print out man 
> pages. This scentence made me think, because why would you need to print man 
> pages from an on-line scource, why not straght from the shell?. So I had a 
> little investigate thinking that there would be a "print" option in the menu 
> bar of the shell terminal but there was'nt one. It is possible to print these 
> from there tho is'nt it?........

man man

to search:
/ 

search for "print"
       man -t alias | lpr -Pps

	   Format  the  manual  page  referenced by `alias', usually a
shell manual page, into the default troff or groff format and pipe it to
the printer named ps.  The default output for groff is usually
PostScript.  man --help should advise as to which processor is bound to
the -t option.

So something like:
man -t | lpr 


Btw, I don't see how printing off man pages is going to be good reading.

I can print for free, and the only pieces of paper found on my desk is a
notepad with some pencil scribblings.

-Kai


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