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- From: beck@ro.den.mmc.com (Fred R. Beck)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: pr command
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.221436.27502@den.mmc.com>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 22:14:36 GMT
- Sender: news@den.mmc.com (News)
- Organization: Martin Marietta
- Lines: 25
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- I just noticed what appears to be a feature of pr peculiar
- only to IRIX. I am currently running 4.0.5, but I noticed
- this behavior of previous revs. (Just didn't have the time
- to tie down the source of the problem.)
-
- When I format a text file using pr, I get a full blank page
- following the last page of text. The next to last page (the
- real last page of text) is ended with a ^V (\015).
-
- I typically use pr in the following fashion:
-
- pr -o8 -l88 infile > outfile
-
- I tried this on a Sun running thier version of SySV pr
- (located in /usr/5bin/pr) which produced the output I
- expected. There were 5 blank lines reserved for the footer
- after the input text.
-
- Just wondered if anyone else had seen this before I sent in
- a TAC. Also, if anyone else has noticed this, have you found
- a way around it? I tried removing the ^V via tr without any
- success.
-
- thanx folks!
- -fred beck
-