Man page oddity

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Wed Mar 29 21:45:21 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 29 March 2006 21:09, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 13:38, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 29 March 2006 19:44, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > > But, but, but...  Don't you really want the nice typeset version
> > > from 'man -t ...'?  And you should be able to "...|lpr" instead
> > > of bothering with files.
> >
> > All that gave me was a great scroll of gobbledegook!  Of course, I could
> > always try man:man ;-)
>
> It is postscript.  You have to send it to a postscript printer
> or one configured for pre-processing through ghostscript for
> your device.
>
Ah - it scrolled of the terminal so fast that all I saw was the block of code 
at the end.

Anne
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