I started to try this with a single command documentation, without looping: (This is SUSE 9 SP3 64 bit)
cd /usr/share/man [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/man/man1> cat znew.1.gz | troff -man | lpr -Plpl031 <standard input>:1: warning: can't find character with input code 2 <standard input>:1: warning: can't find character with input code 3 <standard input>:1: warning: can't find character with input code 6 <standard input>:2: warning: can't find character with input code 4 <standard input>:2: warning: can't find character with input code 127 <standard input>:2: warning: can't find character with input code 7 <standard input>:2: warning: can't find character with input code 5 <standard input>:2: warning: can't find character with input code 12 <standard input>:2: warning: can't break line <standard input>:2: warning: can't break line I got nice garbage printed in my HP1200 printer: x T ps x res 72000 1 1 x init p1 Is this saying I need a postscript printer? The printer is fine with printing plain text files, like ".conf" files. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390