[ale] Printing Source Code

[James P. Kinney III]

mpage -8 source > output.ps
 This will put 8 pages on a single side. You could do 4 if you wanted.
Then view the postscript in ghostview and use the odd/even page marking
to print backs and fronts. Unless yu printer will support 2-sided
printing. In which case I'm jealous!

On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 18:09, Chris Fowler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I need to print about 50,000 lines of C source code.  I want to print on
> both sides of the paper, punch, and bind.
> I've determined that pr -o 8 -n *.c will number, pagenate, and head each
> page.  I'm trying to
> decide what is the best way to print them.  I thought about converting to
> DOS (unix2dos) format and taking
> to Kinko's to finish.  Has anyone else had to print a pile of source before?
> I've determined that to print all the source that I've
> written over the last 5 months would require 1 ream of paper.  That is
> printed front and back. Thankfully I created a standard library otherwise
> that would have been 2 reams of paper.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
> 
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