Most often I use pr to format text files or source code before sending them to my 80 column ink jet printer. Many of these files have lots of lines > 72 (or 80) chars long and I don't want to truncate or bother to edit the file to fit my printer. The printer wraps the long line to the next line, but that means that pr's page length won't fit on the printer's page anymore, so I get an extra page with no header and only a few lines. This seems stupid to me.
I made a patch for pr so that when a line goes over the page width and is not truncated it gets counted as a new line on the page. I would be happy to post it here if anyone is interested. I would also be happy to hear why the original behavior is not as stupid as I think. Mark _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
