On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 03:10:40PM +0300, Leonid Mamtchenkov wrote:
> 1. For printing messages I am using "pr -o 4 -W 72 | lpr". The problem is
> that it does not wrap the long lines, but trancate them, which is not a
> good thing. Maybe someone figured out the way to print nicely long lines.
> (Yeah, I guess, this question is not very much for mutt mailing list, but
> don't know where else to write). As an alternative to pr, I have tried
> a2ps, but pr looks better ;-)
Use 'fold' as the first command in your printing pipeline, e.g.,
"fold -w 72 | pr -o 4 | lpr".
fold(1) fold(1)
NAME
fold - fold long lines for finite width output device
SYNOPSIS
fold [-b] [-s] [-w width] [file ...]
...
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
fold: XPG4, POSIX.2
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
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| Spokane, Washington, USA
