lp printing - line truncation

[Matthew Christie]

There must be a really, really simple solution to this problem and I'm hoping someone can save me an enormous amount of time in sharing their solution with me.

I have a large number of files I need to print. The lines are rather long, however, and when the lp job is sent to the laser printer it truncates the lines in the same manner as 'cat'.
What suggestions do people have for enabling line wrapping for this process?

-Matthew

[Andreas Voss · Accepted solution]

Hi,

try this option:
lp -o eolwrap

Regards

[Ralph Grothe]

Maybe before you send it to the print queue you could pipe it through "pr".
The pr command has many formatting options.
Have a glance at pr's manpage.

[Matthew Christie]

Thanks Andreas, that did the trick. "eolwrap" isn't mentioned in the lp man page - do you know why?

-Matthew

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

you could also wrap per fold command:
fold | lp

Regards

[Matthew Christie]

Andreas, 'fold' works great too! Thanks awfully.

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

generally special lp options are not listed at man lp.
Instead it depends on the interface model script choosen at queue creation time.
To see available options look at /var/spool/lp/interface/ or for all other model scripts at /usr/lib/lp/model

Regards