[pm-h] perl application: I'm in over my head

John Lightsey john at nixnuts.net
Wed Feb 7 15:43:55 PST 2007


On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 17:20 -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:

> Is there an easy way to send the perldoc output to the printer so that
> the pages are properly formatted -- something similar to the way
> formatted man pages may be printed with:
> 
>     man -t perldoc | lpr
> 
> I tried 
> 
>     perldoc -t perldoc | lpr
> 
> but there is no formatting.  I work much better with a piece of paper
> on the desk, rather than reading from the screen.

Try
	perldoc -n groff perldoc | lpr


John



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