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From: Charles Mulks
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 00:00

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In article <lawsonh.915500034@melb132>, lawsonh@melb.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au 
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>"Austin Wilson" <awilson@nospam.connectivity.net.au> writes:
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>>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
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>If your printer is a PostScript device, try:
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>    groff -man -Tps command_name | lpr
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>otherwise try:
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>    groff -man -Tascii command_name | lpr
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>See the on-line manual page for "groff".
>
>Best regards,
>
>Lawson Hanson


man whatever -t > whatever.ps

start ghostview and open whatever.ps
print odd pages, flip'em over, print even pages

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