[ale] Printing Suggestions

Cleveland Flowe flowe at innoverse.com
Fri Oct 26 14:40:58 EDT 2001


"Robert L. Harris" wrote:
> 
> At the office we have an HP Laserjet 8100L.  I'm used to apsfilter which
> has worked great in the past.  I'm trying to print to this booger using
> standard lpr.  When I "lpr test.txt" it looks nice, except for lines that
> go off the edge, they just disappear, no line wrap or anything.  When
> I have to print reports I don't want to go in and manually clean up
> the text since I just want to scan down it or have for personal reference
> in a meeting.

If you have textutils installed try this:

cat test.txt | fmt | lpr

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