Re: Printing text files

[Gary Turner <kk5st@sbcglobal.net>]

Richard Hector wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>This I think should be simple ...
>
>I have an old dot matrix printer - ugly, slow, but cheap and handles
>lineflow.
<snip>
>
>Is there some good way to get the best of both worlds? I want my pages
>neatly broken at the perforations, and I'd rather the system kept the
>required records, so that after every job, the printer is lined up at
>the top of the next page.
>
>Page numbers and filename headers would be nice too, though I think
>emacs adds its own, and I don't want two - I guess 2 queues would solve
>that.
>
>The 'pr' utility looks like it will do some of what I want - can I just
>install that as a filter somewhere?
<snip>

'pr' works for me on my dot-matrix printer.  For text files do

	pr <file> | lpr -Praw

I imagine a small shell script could automate for you.  BTW, pr is a
really nice utility.

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