Re: Text File Prints at Physical Page Boundary

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Gil Citro wrote:
> [...]
> My problem is I want to print a plain text file from the command line,
> but when I give the command lpr <file> or lp <file> the output starts
> at the physical page boundary,   and since the printer can't print to
> the physical page boundary, some of the output is cut off. [...]

Send the text through the pr(1) command:
$ pr -o 4 -W 72 filename.txt | lpr

In the old days of lpr, I think I remember creating a /etc/printcap that 
did this semi-automatically, so that I could do this:

$ lpr -Ptxt filename.txt

You can also use apsfilter which will auto-detect the file type and send 
it to the right processing program before printing.