A2ps - man page printing problem

[John Horne]

On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 08:27 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
> 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
> 
Thanks for the reply, and to Aaron Konstam. Using mpage works fine. I
had noticed that a2ps had not had a release since 2000, so it seems that
it may not be under development any more. Mpage seems to be maintained
by RedHat themselves, so is probably a better choice to use.


John.

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