[plug] Printing Man Pages

Matt Kemner zombie at networx.net.au
Tue Nov 9 16:58:07 WST 1999


On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Mike Holland wrote:

> >        man -t alias | lpr -Pps
> 
> Wow! Where'd you get your man pages? My redhat comes with a 1995 man page
> with:
>        -t     Use  /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc to format the man-

My apologies
I checked the man pages on several systems, one running an ancient version
of Linux (Debian 1.1), one with Debian 2.1 and one somewhere in between 
and they all had the same manpage, dated Jul 12 1995.
I shouldn't have assumed other distributions had the same.

 - Matt




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