>p.slabiak at linux-services.org wrote:
>> Hi
>>>> try this:
>>>> man yourmanpage | col -b > /tmp/yourmanpage.txt
>>>> lpr yourmanpage.txt
>>>> Kind Regards
>>>>>Yep, that would work too but you lose out on all the nice formatting,
>italics, bold etc.
>There are a load of various methods that you could use such as
>converting them to pdf by the following:
Hi Robert,
Yes you are right with all nice formatting but the manpages should give one only the informations...;=))
best regards....
>>man -t your manpage | /tmp/yourmanpage.ps
>>and then:
>>ps2pdf /tmp/yourmanpage.ps
>>One reason you might like to do this would be to make which ever
>manpages you require portable. Or indeed if you do not have a printer
>attached to the Linux machine you can simply copy the pdf over to a
>machine of your choice and view/print it from there using acrobat or
>whatever.
>>Cheers
>Robert
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