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$ man ascii



$ man ascii | cat | lp -


We have a nominee for the useless use of cat award.


Realized after I posted. Too late to fix it. The only reason I made the mistake in the first place is that I wasn't sure if the pager would mess up text output.

(What? You expect me to print three or so pages to test an assumption about how *nix utilities work?)


    man -t ascii | lp -




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