A2ps - man page printing problem

Marc Wilson msw at cox.net
Mon Aug 20 15:27:42 UTC 2007


On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 01:40:01PM +0100, John Horne wrote:
> The man page was printed, but some parts of it were incorrect. Where the
> man page shows on my PC:
> 
>    digits, and the underscore (’_’) character.
> 
> The printed man page has:
> 
>    digits, and the underscore (aM-^@M-^Y_aM-^@M-^Y) character.

The correct way to do this would be:

$ man -t visudo | lp

or perhaps

$ man -t visudo | mpage -2 -P

If you want it two pages per sheet like a2ps does by default.

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