[plug] Printing Man Pages

Damion Hill dhill at wantree.com.au
Tue Nov 9 12:06:09 WST 1999


G'day Michael,
A quick test of 
man <manpagename> | lpr -P<printername>
got a stack of stuff into my print queue but due to a lack of ink, I
couldn't test the output.

man <manpage> > <textfilename>

put the man page in to a text file which I could read or print as
another option.

Cheers,
Damion.


Michael Hunt wrote:
> 
> Hiya all,
> 
> Just a quick question about printing man pages. (I feel a bit dumb for
> asking this *grin*). How do I do it? I want to dump the pages to a file but
> can't figure out how to do it. A cut and paste from a telnet session would
> deo the job put this pages is huge and there has gotta be a better way.
> 
> Thanks guys.
> 
> Michael Hunt

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Damion Hill
dhill at wantree.com.au



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