On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Guy Santiglia wrote:
> 
> > How can I make it print the man pages correctly with the
> > second comand?  I don't want to have to specify the path name
> > of the man page every time I have to print a man page.
> 
> I think you'll have to. Sorry.

I've been thinking about that for some time, and now I believe I have
a solution. Since /usr/bin/nroff is simply a shell script, it's
trivial to patch in a hook for printing. You could either apply the
following patch to nroff directly, or patch a copy in /usr/local/bin,
also changing the path to nroff in /etc/man.conf accordingly. Then, in
[t]csh, "setenv PRINTMAN yes; setenv PAGER='lpr -Plpstylus'; man foo"
or sh, "export PRINTMAN=yes; export PAGER='lpr -Plpstylus'; man foo".
To disable, "unset[env] PRINTMAN; unset[env] PAGER". So far, I've only
tested this by leaving my PAGER set at "less"...

*** nroff.orig  Thu Sep  2 23:54:00 1999
--- nroff       Fri Sep  3 00:29:18 1999
***************
*** 3,10 ****
  
  prog="$0"
  # Default device.
! if test "X$LC_CTYPE" = "Xiso_8859_1" || test "X$LESSCHARSET" = "Xlatin1"
! then
        T=-Tlatin1
  else
        T=-Tascii
--- 3,11 ----
  
  prog="$0"
  # Default device.
! if [ "X$PRINTMAN" = "Xyes" ]; then
!       T=-Tps
! elif [ "X$LC_CTYPE" = "Xiso_8859_1" ] || [ "X$LESSCHARSET" = "Xlatin1" ]; then
        T=-Tlatin1
  else
        T=-Tascii