Generally (and users of other Unices can comment), the 'man'
command actually reads in the raw man page info, (which, in
the old days was written in nroff format), and processes it
and spits out the stuff you see in your xterm window. Note
that in a lot of cases, this may include ANSI characters
that will do bolding and underlining.
To print this, you probably (and I wish I had a Linux box
here to test it on to be sure) could do something like:
man df | lpr
to print the 'df' man page. In some cases, it may be necessary
to use even more commands, as I had to do under ULTRIX 10 years ago:
man df | col -b | lpr
I haven't looked at the man page sources in Linux hard enough
to figure out if they use some special nroff macros or not, which
could make life a bit more amusing.
Bayard
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