Re: lpr and text formatti

[Angus Claydon]

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?

MTIA   angus claydon
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote:

 Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
  
  I want to know what lpr options can be used to format ascii text docs.
  Specifically, I want to have my docs print with normal 1 inch margins.
  I'm running lprng, magicfilter, and gs-aladdin.  Thanks
 
 Check out 'pr'. Take a look at the man page. It has some options that
 let you format plain text for nice printout. I haven't used it in a
 couple years though.
 
 HTH
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Re: lpr and text formatti

[Hartmut Figge]

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