On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 23:57, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
> On Thursday 29 July 2004 13:41, PM wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 21:18, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
> > > On Thursday 29 July 2004 13:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > On 29 Jul 2004 at 12:56, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
> > > > > There has to be a better way to print man pages than to use
> > > > > copy/paste. Please give me a clue? -- Regards; Hoyt
> > > >
> > > > for the man page xxxx
> > > >
> > > > $ man -t xxxx | lpr
> > > >
> > > > or see
> > > >
> > > > http://www.schweikhardt.net/man_page_howto.html#q10
> > > >
> > > > pm
> > >
> > > Thanks for the refrence.  LPR isnt quite right yet.
> >
> > That sends it straight to a printer at lpr.
> >
> > You could always man -t xxxx > xxxx.ps
> 
> man -t sensors > sensors.ps
> Nothing  happened.  Maybe I should explain, I have a i850 printer which 
> is not recognized by linux.  I use a turboprint driver called tp0  and 
> any printer not called tp0 wont work.  I just dont know how to tell 
> everything its there.
> Regards;
> Hoyt
> 

man -t xxxx > xxxx.ps will convert the man file to a psotscript file &
save to disk.

Will 

man -t xxxx | tp0

do anything?
-- 
______
 Paul
 5B8BA


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