[ale] Printing Suggestions

[James P. Kinney III]

enscript <filename>  does a nice job of ascii to postscript printing. It
handles the long lines nicely.

On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 14:40, Cleveland Flowe wrote:
> "Robert L. Harris" wrote:
> > 
> > At the office we have an HP Laserjet 8100L.  I'm used to apsfilter which
> > has worked great in the past.  I'm trying to print to this booger using
> > standard lpr.  When I "lpr test.txt" it looks nice, except for lines that
> > go off the edge, they just disappear, no line wrap or anything.  When
> > I have to print reports I don't want to go in and manually clean up
> > the text since I just want to scan down it or have for personal reference
> > in a meeting.
> 
> If you have textutils installed try this:
> 
> cat test.txt | fmt | lpr
> 
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