[Gllug] Flavours end - Linux begins?

[Tethys]

Stephen Harker writes:

>to format the man page for "command" ready for a printer. You then pipe 
>it to the lpr command that prints it out.
>So...
>
># man -t ls | lpr

Bleugh. Suitable for line printers, yes, but virtually all printers these
days are capable of more than plain text. Pass the man page though groff
to get PostScript output:

	zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz | groff -man | lpr

Tet

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