SUMMARY: An old question on word wrapping - printers

From: balaji <balaji_at_temple.edu>
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 12:10:59 -0500

Thanx to quickfire reply to all those replied.

Following are the response with the names

Balaji./

Question

Hello,

        I was wondering if there is a way to print a file with big lines
of text ( greater 80 chars) and have it word-wrap as it output on the
paper.
        My problem here is that when I print a file with one line of 200
characters only 80 will appear on the paper and the rest are truncated.


Replies:

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Steve Feehan <sfeehan_at_sbb.uvm.edu>

fmt -80 < file | lpr

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George Gallen <ggallen_at_slackinc.com>

what about using fold as your print filter.
or manually.

cat filename | fold -w #cols | lp -dPRINTERNAME

George
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stan_at_temple.edu


Balaji, if printing to a poscript printer, I suggest you check out the
    pform utility. This utility has an option to do what you want. I use it
    all the time in Pine (via my default configuratio) to pipe email text to
    pform then printing it. This method works nicely and long lines wrap.
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Selden E Ball Jr <SEB_at_LNS62.LNS.CORNELL.EDU>


Use a2ps as a filter.
    See http://www.infres.enst.fr/~demaille/a2ps/

    I hope this helps.

    Selden
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    Selden E. Ball, Jr.

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