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Article #1144Re: Printing man pages
From: Gordon Furbush
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 1994 05:04
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 1994 05:04
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SEISMO_USER__.....0 (phil@terra10.gps.caltech.edu) wrote: : I am having trouble printing man pages. : I can view them using nroff -man filename | more. : When I redirect this to a file, then print the file, the printout : has control characters in it. : It seems to be related to the fact that the nroff file when displayed on : the screen accpepts commands to back-up and re-write portions of the : screen, while the printer won't accept such commands. : I want to print from a Solaris 2.3 machine, but I could also : use a SunOS 4.1.3 machine. : Any suggesttions would be apprecieated. If you want PostScript output, try: tbl filename | ptroff -man -t > filename.ps -- Gordon Furbush gfurbush@crl.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10183f,3fda2f5a7eb0d8a X-Google-Attributes: gid10183f,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-07-30 18:10:08 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!redstone.interpath.net!ddsw1!panix!news.intercon.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!ames!decwrl!nntp.crl.com!crl2.crl.com!not-for-mail From: gfurbush@crl.com (Gordon Furbush) Newsgroups: ca.unix Subject: Re: Printing man pages Date: 29 Jul 1994 22:04:12 -0700 Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [login: guest] Lines: 21 Message-ID: <31cn0c$5sa@crl2.crl.com> References: <30mqos$253@gap.cco.caltech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: crl2.crl.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]