I am trying to learn but switching between man docs and the program I am trying to set up is a real pain in the neck.
Please help a newbie Print a hard copy of the man pages for ntop?

Hi,
    
While I also agree there are other ways than printing out man pages, we can still help.
I will give you the example for the man page for ntop, you just change it to whatever you want.
man ntop | col -b | lp   "man" formats the text with Ctrl-H backspaces and multiple letters to make bold text. That will bork your print job, thus the piping through col -b ,  then pipe to you printer .    
If you want to turn it to text and NOT print or print it later, you could do this
man ntop | col -b > ntop_man_page.txt  
for saving paper you should look into the program "screen" or maybe your getting hung up with one terminal, or you could log in multiple times.
<edit> one more thing , just in case you're not familiar with piping,  the "pipe" |  is shift+\  ( the one above the enter key on US qwerty keyboards)    also look into http://www.manpages.info/  and The Linux Documentation Project http://www.tldp.org/  
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I am trying to learn but switching between man docs and the program I am trying to set up is a real pain in the neck.
Please help a newbie Print a hard copy of the man pages for ntop?

this is hilarious...

just do a cat on whatever man page you want to print on a newfile and then you will be able to print it.

still I am not sure if this a problem or not what you are having.....

Next time some more useful questions pls.

thanks