Re: [9fans] how to print a program

["Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>]

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 <rogpeppe@gmail.com> wrote:
> i've always used an ancient version of a2ps for this,
> ported to plan 9 by forsyth@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 likely to be a little harder
> to port :-)
>
>
> On 7 September 2010 22:00, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com> 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 -dstdout > toprint.ps
>> is almost ok.
>> That 'almost' is in the fact that long lines get truncated, which is
>> highly undesirable.
>> fmt -j
>> could help, but it also replaces spaces and tabs by a single space, again bad.
>> (btw. why
>> fmt <>afile
>> doesn't work?)
>>
>> So how?
>> Can anybody help? (I mean, is there a one-liner?)
>> Thank you!
>> Ruda
>>
>>
>
>



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Federico G. Benavento