[svlug] rant about man pages

[kmself@ix.netcom.com]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:43:09AM -0700, Prasanth A. Kumar wrote:
> kmself at ix.netcom.com writes:

<snip>

> Anyway, one nifty feature of man (and probably texinfo?) is that you
> can produce typeset quality postscript documents you can print out or
> view using ghostscript. I find this useful because I have a hard time
> comprehending long reference docs on a monitor and prefer the dead
> tree version.
> 
> The way to produce the postscript document is:
> 
> man -t tar >tar.ps

My preferred recipie:

   man foo | pr -h 'FOO' | mpage -2 | gv -
   man foo | pr -h 'FOO' | mpage -2 | lpr

...or for long pages, 4-up output.

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