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Does anyone know a good way to print "cat" format man pages on a postscript
printer?  If you have the nroff source, its easy using groff:
        groff -man manpage.1 | lpr
This produces beautiful looking output.  Unfortunately, most of the man
pages that come with Slackware are only in "cat" form, so I can't do this.
When I just try to print the pages (and even using a number of utils), the
control characters in the "cat" file for underlining and bolding show up on
the output as extra letters.  Is there a good utility for converting these
suckers and the files as a whole to postscript form, so that the output
looks better?

Thanks for any suggestions.

-Andy Cook

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nroff -man /usr/man/{man page file} | lpr -P{printer}

Cheers,

Terry

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Quote:>Hi-
>Does anyone know a good way to print "cat" format man pages on a postscript
>printer?  If you have the nroff source, its easy using groff:
>    groff -man manpage.1 | lpr
>This produces beautiful looking output.  Unfortunately, most of the man
>pages that come with Slackware are only in "cat" form, so I can't do this.
>When I just try to print the pages (and even using a number of utils), the
>control characters in the "cat" file for underlining and bolding show up on
>the output as extra letters.  Is there a good utility for converting these
>suckers and the files as a whole to postscript form, so that the output
>looks better?

-gmm

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