printing

[Ben Pfaff]

"Marcel Kunath" <kunathma@pilot.msu.edu> writes:

> I tried doing
> 
> lpr -Psmurf /etc/printcap
> 
> and it would not do the carriage returns. Anybody ever have a problem with pure
> text files?

It probably wants to have DOS-style line ends (CR LF) rather than
Unix-style (LF).  Try 
	cat /etc/printcap | unix2dos | lpr -Psmurf
instead.  Or better yet use `enscript' and sidestep the whole
issue.

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