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On Monday 10 Mar 2003 7:26 am, Kai Hendry wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:18:07AM +0000, jon davey wrote:
> > Hi, I've just set up a printer in Mandrake 9.0 so that I could print out
> > man pages <snip> It is possible to print these is'nt it?........
>
> man man
>
> to search:
> /
> search for "print"
> man -t alias | lpr -Pps
> Format the manual page referenced by `alias', usually a
> shell manual page, into the default troff or groff format and pipe it to
> the printer named ps. The default output for groff is usually
> PostScript. man --help should advise as to which processor is bound to
> the -t option.
> So something like:
> man -t | lpr
>
> Btw, I don't see how printing off man pages is going to be good reading.
> I can print for free, and the only pieces of paper found on my desk is a
> notepad with some pencil scribblings.
> -Kai
Oh....something about the way my brain has been trained finds it easier to,
when I need to read a scentance and copy it, read from paper unfortunatly.
Is that what you meant or is there a better way of learning commands than
the man pages altogher?.
J-D
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