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Re: lpr and text formatti



Angus Claydon wrote:
> 
> To hitch a ride on this thread,
> can anyone please help me use the -COLUMN option for pr;
> When I type  'pr -COLUMN 2 filename | lpr
> I get
> 
> pr: invalid option --C
> 
> Did I miss  something in the man page?

you are not really missing something, but putting too much into your
command line. if you want 2 columns, then you should replace COLUMN with
2, therefore your command line should be:
pr -2 filename | lpr

hafi


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