Manual printing

Manual printing

[Doug]

I would like to print out the complete manual for a topic. ie Node.conf
I can view the manual page by page using the man command, but I do not
seem to be able to print the entire manual. You can print the screen,
but I can't figure out how to print the total document. The one I am
presently looking at is node.conf (5).

Can anyone explain how I can get the whole document printed??
I am using Mepis 6.0 on a PIV.

Thanks

Doug VE5DA

Re: Manual printing

[J. Lance Cotton]

on 5/29/2007 3:57 PM Doug said the following:
> I would like to print out the complete manual for a topic. ie Node.conf
> I can view the manual page by page using the man command, but I do not
> seem to be able to print the entire manual. You can print the screen,
> but I can't figure out how to print the total document. The one I am
> presently looking at is node.conf (5).
> 
> Can anyone explain how I can get the whole document printed??
> I am using Mepis 6.0 on a PIV.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/hp/hpux-faq/section-140.html

zcat manfile.1 | groff -man -Tps | lp



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Re: Manual printing

[Bob Nielsen]

On May 29, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Doug wrote:

> I would like to print out the complete manual for a topic. ie  
> Node.conf
> I can view the manual page by page using the man command, but I do not
> seem to be able to print the entire manual. You can print the screen,
> but I can't figure out how to print the total document. The one I am
> presently looking at is node.conf (5).
>
> Can anyone explain how I can get the whole document printed??
> I am using Mepis 6.0 on a PIV.
>
> Thanks
>
> Doug VE5DA
>

Try 'man -t node.conf |lpr'.

73 - Bob, N7XY

Re: Manual printing

[Nate Bargmann]

* Doug <appld@sasktel.net> [2007 May 29 16:24 -0500]:
> I would like to print out the complete manual for a topic. ie Node.conf
> I can view the manual page by page using the man command, but I do not
> seem to be able to print the entire manual. You can print the screen,
> but I can't figure out how to print the total document. The one I am
> presently looking at is node.conf (5).
> 
> Can anyone explain how I can get the whole document printed??
> I am using Mepis 6.0 on a PIV.

I like the a2ps utility as it allows printing in various formats.  The
easiest I use is:

man 8 fubar | a2ps -P printer

(the -P option is only needed for a non default printer)

BTW, I use CUPS and its lpr emulation.

By default, a2ps will print two pages to a sheet and can do even more
or only one plus many more ways to enhance the print.

- Nate >>

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