I had the same prob and I used:
pr -l 60 myfile | lpr
and it worked great.
For printing MAN-read files I used 2 steps:
(still wondering how to do that in 1 step)
man (manpage-name) > myfile
pr -l 60 -t myfile | lpr
The -t cuts all the headers and footers. Nice
lean/clean printing.
>My pr command has a default page length of 66 lines, which is too much. I
>need to reduce to about 60, but don't know how.
>
>I tried to issue the following command:
>
> pr -l 60
>
>But that did not seem to have any affect. Should it have? Where would be
>the obvious place to put the command so that it is loaded when emacs is
>started? There's a command string somewhere, but I can't seem to find it.
>
>Haines Brown
>
>
