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Re: printing ascii files



On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 01:18:21PM -0400, Anand Saxena (ansaxena@engr.uconn.edu) wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> This should be an easy one to answer. When I print ascii files, I often
> get word-overflow. In other words, a word at the end of a line gets
> split between that line and the next like this:
> 
> Printing ASCII should be rela
> tively easy, but for newbies 
> it is not.
> 
> 
> I have read the printing howtos, but nothing seems to explain this. Is
> there a way to address this? All I want is that words at the end of the
> line don't get split between lines.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy Saxena

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