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Tony Lawrence enscribed:
| Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
| > 
| > Wayne Jackon propounded (on Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 08:18:22AM +1000):
| > | Because I am being difficult.  And that was the pages that I went for as I
| > | was curious as to see how it would be done myself, plus I am sitting on a
| > | Win2K machine and don't have access to a OSR box.
| > |
| > | But seriously, it give him a printable version if coming from a Windows
| > | machine.
| > 
| > Why is it any more less printable than if he'd pointed Netscape on his
| > OSR 5 box to his local help files?
| 
| 
| Because SCO systems don't install by default configured to
| be able to print anything from Netscape (unless you happen
| to have a Postscript printer) ?  Because a SCO user who
| wants to print from Netscape needs to first *know* that they
| need gs, then download it (ppp configured yet? DNS?),
| install it, and then figure out how to make it work-
| starting, of course, with getting the newly installed man
| page to work.
| 
| I'd say that makes it slightly less printable from SCO for
| the average user.

Well, if one is going to use ghostscript, there is a good chance they
have a HP compatible laser and probably be using the HPLaserJet
interface script, in which case:

 man cat | lp -o nroff

is much cleaner.  'Course you need the tools and the knowledge of the
less than well known option.  :-)

--tom 
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