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Trying to print out a man page, after a light search on the intarweb(3
days and counting The best Ive found so far is to use troff to output
to a lpr queue.
Ive got cups set up but not lpr, and wouldnt know how to edit the
command/pipe to cups

Option 2 is to find someone who has put the man page in question on their
website and print from there, although seeing as Ive come this far I'd
like to know how thats dones (converting man pages to .html format)

TIA

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Shane wrote:

> Trying to print out a man page, after a light search on the intarweb(3
> days and counting The best Ive found so far is to use troff to
> output to a lpr queue.
> Ive got cups set up but not lpr, and wouldnt know how to edit the
> command/pipe to cups

This will format it as plain text:

man <manpage> | col -b

eg man man | col -b

> Option 2 is to find someone who has put the man page in question on
> their website and print from there, although seeing as Ive come this
> far I'd like to know how thats dones (converting man pages to .html
> format)

I've got man2html on my Gentoo box - not sure where the site is to
download it from though - the one listed doesn't seem to be right.
There are other man converters available as well.

--
Chris Hope | www.electrictoolbox.com | www.linuxcdmall.com

Shane wrote:
> Trying to print out a man page, after a light search on the intarweb(3
> days and counting The best Ive found so far is to use troff to output
> to a lpr queue.
> Ive got cups set up but not lpr, and wouldnt know how to edit the
> command/pipe to cups
>
> Option 2 is to find someone who has put the man page in question on their
> website and print from there, although seeing as Ive come this far I'd
> like to know how thats dones (converting man pages to .html format)
>
> TIA
>

try
man man
and look at the -H option
I think the man package now includes man2html

On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:13:40 +1300, Chris Hope wrote:

> Shane wrote:
>
>> Trying to print out a man page, after a light search on the intarweb(3
>> days and counting The best Ive found so far is to use troff to
>> output to a lpr queue.
>> Ive got cups set up but not lpr, and wouldnt know how to edit the
>> command/pipe to cups
>
> This will format it as plain text:
>
> man <manpage> | col -b
>
> eg man man | col -b

lifesaver

>
>> Option 2 is to find someone who has put the man page in question on
>> their website and print from there, although seeing as Ive come this
>> far I'd like to know how thats dones (converting man pages to .html
>> format)
>
> I've got man2html on my Gentoo box - not sure where the site is to
> download it from though - the one listed doesn't seem to be right.
> There are other man converters available as well.


adept has that listed as a package for kubuntu (installing as we speak)

TA nicely
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On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:23:32 +1300, shannon wrote:

> Shane wrote:
>> Trying to print out a man page, after a light search on the intarweb(3
>> days and counting The best Ive found so far is to use troff to output
>> to a lpr queue.
>> Ive got cups set up but not lpr, and wouldnt know how to edit the
>> command/pipe to cups
>>
>> Option 2 is to find someone who has put the man page in question on their
>> website and print from there, although seeing as Ive come this far I'd
>> like to know how thats dones (converting man pages to .html format)
>>
>> TIA
>>
>
> try
> man man
> and look at the -H option
> I think the man package now includes man2html

Just to be contrary, my install is giving me this
$ man threads -Hfirefox
Reformatting threads(3perl), please wait...
groff: can't find `DESC' file
groff:fatal error: invalid device `html'
man: command exited with status 768: /usr/bin/zsoelim /tmp/zmanhNRBk5 | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/groff -mandoc -Thtml


I had the same problem with groff -T
although I have now installed man2html, and used chris's col -b

$man man |col -b >man.txt

and printed from there
ta


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Shane wrote:

> Trying to print out a man page, after a light search on the intarweb(3
> days and counting The best Ive found so far is to use troff to output
> to a lpr queue.
> Ive got cups set up but not lpr, and wouldnt know how to edit the
> command/pipe to cups
>
> Option 2 is to find someone who has put the man page in question on their
> website and print from there, although seeing as Ive come this far I'd
> like to know how thats dones (converting man pages to .html format)
>
> TIA
>

Can't you re-direct the output to a text file?

"man ping > ping.txt"

Then open ping.txt with whatever text-handling app you want - and print it.

steve wrote:

> Shane wrote:
>
>> Trying to print out a man page, after a light search on the
>> intarweb(3 days and counting The best Ive found so far is to use
>> troff to output to a lpr queue.
>> Ive got cups set up but not lpr, and wouldnt know how to edit the
>> command/pipe to cups
>>
>> Option 2 is to find someone who has put the man page in question on
>> their website and print from there, although seeing as Ive come this
>> far I'd like to know how thats dones (converting man pages to .html
>> format)
>>
>> TIA
>>
>
> Can't you re-direct the output to a text file?
>
> "man ping > ping.txt"
>
> Then open ping.txt with whatever text-handling app you want - and
> print it.

It looks like a mess if you do that as it has all sorts of formatting
controls and special/repeating characters. You need to do what I
suggested to make it text format which is "man <manpage> | col -b"
which you could then output to a file if you wanted.

--
Chris Hope | www.electrictoolbox.com | www.linuxcdmall.com

Chris Hope wrote:

> steve wrote:
>
>> Shane wrote:
>>
>>> Trying to print out a man page, after a light search on the
>>> intarweb(3 days and counting The best Ive found so far is to use
>>> troff to output to a lpr queue.
>>> Ive got cups set up but not lpr, and wouldnt know how to edit the
>>> command/pipe to cups
>>>
>>> Option 2 is to find someone who has put the man page in question on
>>> their website and print from there, although seeing as Ive come this
>>> far I'd like to know how thats dones (converting man pages to .html
>>> format)
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>>
>> Can't you re-direct the output to a text file?
>>
>> "man ping > ping.txt"
>>
>> Then open ping.txt with whatever text-handling app you want - and
>> print it.
>
> It looks like a mess if you do that as it has all sorts of formatting
> controls and special/repeating characters. You need to do what I
> suggested to make it text format which is "man <manpage> | col -b"
> which you could then output to a file if you wanted.

Thanks.....I had not tried printing my approach. Probably just as well.

Yours is saved away in my text file of useful things to know. Ta.