Oh, that is beautiful! Thank you very much. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT
Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On > Behalf Of Malcolm Beattie > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 11:01 AM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: bash question. <snip> > In case you weren't aware of it already, the utilities used to > process the *roff macros used in man pages support typesetting to > PostScript as well as generating simple text output. So typing > man -t bash > bash-man.ps > will generate you a nicely formatted PostScript version of the > man page in bash-man.ps, fancy fonts and all, instead of what you'd > get from just taking the text version. That's suitable for direct > pringting but you can instead just > ps2pdf bash-man.ps > to produce your bash-man.pdf PDF version. > > Using "info bash" instead of "man bash" uses a slightly different > source of documentation (the FSF document their own programs in their > own GNU info format instead of man pages) but you'll nearly always > find that some nice people have already ensured that your distro has > man pages for the programs as well and that they have either exactly > the same content or are "close enough" for most purposes. There are > ways of generating various typeset-like formats from info format too > but I forget what they are and I don't think they are as simple as > just adding "-t" to your man command invocation. > > --Malcolm > > -- > Malcolm Beattie ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
