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Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

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On Sat 02 Oct 2021 at 09:03:39 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 02, 2021 at 12:45:07PM +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> > man pages are written in troff/nroff (which can be compiled using groff)
> > using the man style.  You can do the following, for instance:
> > 
> > gunzip -c /usr/share/man/man1/chmod.1.gz | groff -man | lp
> > 
> > (or replace "lp" with "gv -" to see on screen).
> 
> This appears to produce a Postscript stream.  I'm pretty sure that isn't
> what Gene wanted (but who knows, since the question was apparently "how
> do I save a man page's text, without markup, into a file" and the answer
> turned out to be "man foo > file", which should not have required asking
> a worldwide mailing list for help).

It appears Gene Heskett wants to print a man page (but maybe not). In
this case, I see nothing wrong with 'man -t | lp'.

BTW, I do not think gv accepts an output piped to it.

-- 
Brian.

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What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-01 18:30 +0200
  Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2021-10-01 18:40 +0200
    Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-01 23:00 +0200
      Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-01 23:10 +0200
        Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-01 23:30 +0200
          Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-01 23:40 +0200
      Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2021-10-02 02:50 +0200
        Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-02 03:00 +0200
          Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-10-02 05:00 +0200
            Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-02 13:30 +0200
              Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-02 15:00 +0200
          Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-02 13:20 +0200
        Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-02 11:40 +0200
  Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2021-10-01 18:50 +0200
    Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-01 23:10 +0200
  Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2021-10-01 20:00 +0200
    Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it  on-screen Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2021-10-01 20:10 +0200
    Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-01 23:10 +0200
      Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-01 23:20 +0200
        Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-01 23:40 +0200
          Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-10-02 17:20 +0200
            Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-02 21:50 +0200
              Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-10-02 22:10 +0200
                Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-02 23:40 +0200
              Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it  on-screen Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2021-10-02 23:10 +0200
  Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-01 21:50 +0200
    Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-01 23:20 +0200
  Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2021-10-02 13:50 +0200
    Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-02 14:50 +0200
    Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-02 15:10 +0200
      Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-10-02 16:40 +0200
        Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2021-10-02 18:00 +0200
          Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-10-02 19:40 +0200
      Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2021-10-02 18:00 +0200

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