[15759] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.1.15: man
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur E Housinger)
Tue Jan 20 23:38:09 1998
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 23:38:04 EST
From: Arthur E Housinger <mouse@MIT.EDU>
System name: m12-182-16
Type and version: SPARC/4 8.1.15
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
man -t man
What's wrong:
It gives an error:
%man -t man
Reformatting page. Wait... done
/usr/athena/bin/lp: illegal option -- T
lp [-c] [-ddest] [-m] [-nnumber] [-ooption] [-s] [-ttitle] [-w] files
%
Looking at "lp -help" and "man lp", I'm getting conflicting messages
about the -T option.
What should have happened:
-t man arranges for the specified manual pages to be
troffed to a suitable raster output device (see
troff(1). If both the - and -t flags are given,
man updates the troffed versions of each named
name (if necessary), but does not display them.
I'm guessing that this means that the man page should be pretty-printed
to a printer.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
man man
man lp
lp -help
