topic Re: print man page in Operating System - HP-UX

print man page

sandeep_4 — Mon, 30 Jul 2001 18:59:39 GMT

How to print "man"(help) pages in Hp-UX. In normal lp command it can not print special characters.

I think i knew this but just can not rememer it now.

Re: print man page

Sachin Patel — Mon, 30 Jul 2001 19:04:57 GMT

Hi Sandeep
man lp |lp -dprintername
or
man lp > test
cat test |lp -d printername

Both are same thing.
It always works for me.

Sachin

Re: print man page

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 30 Jul 2001 19:13:05 GMT

Hi:

Do this:

# man command | col -b | lp -d lpdest

...JRF...

Re: print man page

Douglas R. Taylor — Mon, 30 Jul 2001 19:46:33 GMT

This is what I have used in the past and it has the added advantage that with the man page in a file it is easily reprinted.

man hpnpf | col -b | expand > /home/hpnpf.txt

Then print the page to any printer you would like. To print correctly on the page, you must use the ?oln66 option. This tells the printer that there are 66 lines per page. This may not work on all printers.

lp -dgo_icerpt1 -oln66 /home/hpnpf.txt

Re: print man page

Stefan Schulz — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 04:39:03 GMT

Hi,

normally i would use the col -b command as James and Douglas mentioned.

But if you are using HP Laserjets with JetAdmin installed, there is another option. You can use:

man command | lp -dprintername -onroff

This will print the nroff formated page directly. Also the highlighted text will be printed in bold letters.

Hope this helps

Regards Stefan