NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/comp/os/linux/23483

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From: [e-mail] (Dick Norris)
Subject: Re: Printer drivers and interfaceing DOS partitions
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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 20:27:50 GMT
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[e-mail]  writes:
> I have two new questions here if I may.
>
=> 1.)  Are there some dot matrix printer drivers in linux somewhere that
=>= would enable one to print out files not only in plain
=> teletype mode, but with some formatting?
=>   One application for this would be to print out man pages with BOLD
=> attributes the way they look on the screen.  Right now if I pipe those
=> man pages to  /dev/lp1 the output is pretty useless.
>
    I found that from the 'menu' there is a printing option.
    Depending on how uncommon your printer is I suspect you can
    print the manual references with paging recognized, but not much
    else. Still, readable.

                DNorris

> 2.) I noticed that when I copy an ASCII file from my DOS partition to
> the linux partition, the copy retains the carriage return (ASCII 13)
> character that goes together in DOS files with LF, but is not needed in
> Unix.  I had to write myself a little filter to get rid off these extra
> CRs, but it occured to me that there should be some intelligent 'cp'
> function that strips them automatically on import from DOS, and perhaps
> adds them on export.  I realize, that the std cp command could not
> possibly know whether it copies a text file or a binary, but perhaps
> there is a modified cp somewhere that has a command switch for something
> like this.  Well, is there?
>
> Thanks,
> Joe Pannon