Have you tried setting tabs differently? I wonder if lp picks up whatever the terminal settings are.
You can do tabs -8 to reset to "standard" and see if that helps? But I haven't heard of any differences in tabs between 5 & 6.... I could be way, way off on the above though :) On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > I've posted a number of transition issues we encounter going from CentOS 5 > to CentOS 6. Today's question is another such niggle. > > Given - sourcefile.ext is a text file that is submitted to a compile > process. > - someprint is a printer defined in cups > > If we lp -d someprint sourcefile.ext on the CentOS 5 system, the tab > characters cause 7 spaces in the printed text. When we lp -d someprint > sourcefile.ext on the CentOS 6 system, only 1 space appears in the printed > text. > > If we a2ps -P someprint sourcefile.ext on the CentOS system, the tabs > produce 7 spaces in the printed text. The CentOS 5 system gives us a > segmentation fault on a2ps, but that is an anomaly of that particular > system previously discussed here. > > I've looked at lpoptions and cups documentation and am not finding clues > as to where one might control the "throw weight" of the tab character. > Anybody got a pointer? > > Howard > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- http://www.wesleyduffeebraun.com <http://www.ashevillephotobooth.com> -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
