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From: Lawson Hanson
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 00:00

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"Austin Wilson" <awilson@nospam.connectivity.net.au> writes:

>I would like to print out a number of the online man pages for offline
>reading.  Is there a command to do this.

>Thanks
>Austin

If your printer is a PostScript device, try:

    groff -man -Tps command_name | lpr

otherwise try:

    groff -man -Tascii command_name | lpr

See the on-line manual page for "groff".

Best regards,

Lawson Hanson

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