ascii file printing

Marr marr@shianet.org
Sat, 10 Nov 2001 20:07:34 -0500


On Saturday 10 November 2001 05:35am, Marcel Kunath wrote:

> I set up a HP printer with lprng and ifhp. It prints everything except
> ascii text files. Those get printed in the form
>
> 1st line
>     2nd line
>         3rd line
>
> The carriage return problem I am sure many of you are aware of.
>   .
>   .
>   .
> my printcap:
> 
> smurf:cm=Local Printer smurf:\


Can't you just:

   cat filename | todos | lpr -Psmurf

Bill Marr