> It's probably time to move past "lp". They don't exist much anymore
> in the real world.
has anyone ported CUPS? i just wanted to check whether someone should be burnt
at the stake.
On Sep 8, 2010, at 12:08 AM, "Lawrence E. Bakst"
wrote:
It's probably time to move past "lp". They don't exist much anymore
in the real world.
Sorry, how is this formatting issue
the fault of 'lp', exactly?
ak
> cb has been a looser since I've known it,
> which is longer than most. It often dumped core,
> even back in the 70's. It's good in a pinch to turn
> someone's "far out" indenting style back to K&R normal form.
loose programs, loose women. each to his
own vice.
- erik
At 8:25 AM +0200 9/8/10, Rudolf Sykora wrote:
>also, just note that cb doesn't always work even for c source:
>running on /sys/src/cmd/page/gfx.c
>produces crap...
cb has been a looser since I've known it, which is longer than most. It often
dumped core, even back in the 70's. It's good in a pinc
steve has a fold program which he used combined with pr to generate
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/steve/doc/kernel-june2k-a4.ps
/n/sources/contrib/steve/rc/kernel.print
/n/sources/contrib/steve/fold.tbz
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:45 AM, roger peppe wrote:
> i've always used an ancient
i've always used an ancient version of a2ps for this,
ported to plan 9 by fors...@terzerima.net. this does almost
everything i want (in particular two-column landscape mode)
with the exception that it doesn't
grok utf-8. i'm sure charles will send you a copy
if you wish.
the current gnu version is
> Run it through cb before you print it and give cb a length argument. I
> did basically this same thing just the other day.
>
> John
also, just note that cb doesn't always work even for c source:
running on /sys/src/cmd/page/gfx.c
produces crap...
thanks
ruda
> (Is awk line length-limited?)
you can test stuff like this yourself:
; dd -if /dev/zero -bs 8192 -count 10 | tr '\0' 'x' | awk '{print length($1)}'
10+0 records in
10+0 records out
81920
- erik
> Run it through cb before you print it and give cb a length argument. I
> did basically this same thing just the other day.
>
> John
ok. this will be enough for now, I hope.
Nonetheless, generally, there may be not-c files present (other
languages...; even in my case there is a .ps file, which I
> (btw. why
> fmt <>afile
> doesn't work?)
sure it does. fmt <>file will open file for
reading and writing on fd 0. fd 1 will be your
terminal. if you want fd1 to be the same channel,
you can add >[1=0], but this will not have the
intended effect in this case. why is left as an
exercise.
- er
also, a nice feature of 'fmt' is that long lines are broken AND
indented according to the start of the just-being-processed line; this
is welcome...
R
On 7 September 2010 23:00, Rudolf Sykora wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to 'print' the 'page' program, i.e. put /sys/src/cmd/page/* on paper.
> I want
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Rudolf Sykora wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to 'print' the 'page' program, i.e. put /sys/src/cmd/page/* on paper.
> I want different files start on new pages, with the header of every
> page being the file name and the page.
> For this the command
> a=`{ls} pr $a | lp
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