[CLUE-Talk] Printing Man Pages

Jeffery C. Cann jccann at home.com
Fri Dec 15 05:16:43 MST 2000


On Thursday 14 December 2000 22:56, Ken Terrell wrote:

> There HAS to be some way to tell man how many lines my printer can fit on a
> single page,  so that "page 15"  is actually printed at the bottom of the
> 15th page.   I have looked at the man pages for Man,  Nroff, troff, groff,
> and everything else I can think of,  and the closest that I got was the
> MANWIDTH environmental variable.    Am I missing something easy?

Ken,

Try using enscript to convert text to postscript.  I like this output much 
better for printing raw text files.  Not sure about page breaks, never really 
worried too much about it.

Jeff

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