Re: [TCLUG:10039] Printing man pages

[Troy Johnson <john1536@tc.umn.edu>]

It's usually called "nenscript" on Red Hat (I assume it's a GNU version,
but I don't know).

Scott Dier - dieman wrote:
> 
> I would personally pipe the output of man to enscript. :)
> 
> On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Ben Beuchler wrote:
> 
> > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 00:07:25 -0600 (CST)
> > From: Ben Beuchler <insyte@emt-p.org>
> > Reply-To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> > To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> > Subject: [TCLUG:10039] Printing man pages
> >
> > I would like to be able to print out a man page or two for some quiet
> > reading by the fire.  Unfortunately, the are printed in some sort of
> > markup language.  As near as I can tell from the config files and other
> > man pages, it's something designed for groff.  So, thinking quickly, I
> > tried to use groff to format them for postscript, which my printer will
> > support.  No dice.  Came out rather... funky.  Does anyone know a good way
> > to do this?  I would prefer to be able to print with mpage or something
> > similar so I don't run off 20 pages of text.
> >
> > Ben
> >
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