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Date: Wed,  8 Sep 2010 12:45:09 +0100
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From: roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] how to print a program
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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
>
>