Re: [Nolug] Question about piping commands together

From: Mischa Krilov <subs_at_krilov.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 00:13:07 -0600
Message-ID: <402DBC73.2070202@krilov.com>

Joey Kelly wrote:

> On Thursday 12 February 2004 08:44, Wimprine, Thomas spake:
>
>>At a meeting a few months ago Judson showed us how to pipe commands
>>together. I'm trying to remember how to do something we did. I want to take
>>the man pages and get them to pdf.
>
> Um... I remember Mischa doing that a few meetings ago. Here's what I was able
> to come up with:

Credit where credit is due: Judson was going over pipes, I showed a2ps
to the group.

Either way, don't forget that a2ps can format a variable number of
sheets per page: you can specify however you like with --columns=n or
--rows=n (where n is a number), but a common few defaults have built in
switches.

 From the doc page on the web:

Option: -1
     1 x 1 portrait, 80 chars/line, major rows (i.e. alias for
`--columns=1 --rows=1 --portrait --chars-per-line=80 --major=rows').

Option: -2
     2 x 1 landscape, 80 chars/line, major rows. [very handy! -mdk]

Option: -3
     3 x 1 landscape, 80 chars/line, major rows.

Option: -4
     2 x 2 portrait, 80 chars/line, major rows.

Option: -5
     5 x 1 landscape, 80 chars/line, major rows.

Option: -6
     3 x 2 landscape, 80 chars/line, major rows.

Option: -7
     7 x 1 landscape, 80 chars/line, major rows.

Option: -8
     4 x 2 landscape, 80 chars/line, major rows.

Option: -9
     3 x 3 portrait, 80 chars/line, major rows.

Mischa.

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