On Monday 08 March 2021 01:07:07 R C wrote: > On 3/7/21 10:43 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: > > If you intend to print man pages use the "-t" option and you will > > get Postscript output that is easier to read than dumb-ASCII. > > > > Something like > > > > man -t chmod > chmod_manpage.ps > > This worked to generate the .ps file, and evince loaded it and printed a beautiful copy. Exactly what I wanted.
Thanks everybody, problem is solved. > > Will generate a Postscript file for the "chmod" command that is > > formatted for letter-size pages with professional-like typesetting. > > 30 years ago I > > you mean like ... bold ? > > > once had a notebook of these printouts it worked the same way then > > as now. UNIX was old, even then. Yeah, we had an AT&T 3B2 back in the late 80's & 90's for a message box from CBS in NYC. AT&T never did learn to buy quality fans, their cheap ones froze up and started a fire 3 damned times. I was glad it was on a steel table. That older unix was not at all friendly either. It got replaced by a pc running eudora when CBS couldn't buy any more 3B2's. I do not remember that P.O.S. fondly. Both needed a dedicated phone line, which was a high monthly cost item back then. Then someone discovered that closed captions was just one of many slow data channels available in the vits package. That ushered in a new headache, and a new hatred for canuk customs because the north of the border outfit that made the decoder insisted no manuals so it had to be sent back to be repaired. The customs shack at the border had no "in out of the weather" storage, so anything that didn't have all the t's crossed on the paperwork, sat out in the weather till they got the proper paperwork. I got it back once with a UPS hangtag on the rack handle, the carton had dissolved in the rain s\as it had sent about 3 weeks inside their chain link fencing for most of April. I let it dry for over a week before I gave it line power. Amazingly, it still worked. CBS and I had some rather frank, nsfw discussions over that. Cost us about 20k$ because we were on the wrong sat channels and were airing commercials intended for other markets that we didn't get paid for. I rewrote a terminal proggy to make a vt-220 out of it for my office coco3 computer that allowed me to edit the satellite controllers schedule, and had them send me a message with the days switching schedule every day. By then we had our own email server, running linux of course, at the tv station. I retired before the digital switch. Now I'm just an old fart trying real hard to adjust. :-) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
